Change of Command Ceremony

Russell's ship got a new Commanding officer or Captain and Russell of course was party of the ceremony as were the rest of the crew. I got to attend the ceremony as guest of the Captain because I am one of the newly appointed Family Readiness Group board members. It was very cool to get a formal invitation and get to sit in the first row of guest seats among both the new and old Captain’s family members, very important Admirals and a few others. It was nice to get photos of the event and take a few formal photos of Russell and I all dressed up.

All of my photos have the FRG logo on them because I also shared them on our FRG webpage.

CAPT Dusek saying farwell to CAPT Fluker.

New Commanding Officer of the USS Bonhomme Richard, CAPT Dusek and my fellow FRG Board Members.  

I shot this photo during the ceremony from my seat.

I take this opportunity to pose for a photo while I have my handsome sailor in his dress white uniform. This doesn't happen often....

We Were in the Japanese Online News!

I know, it's been forever since I have posted, but I promise to play catch up sometime this week. For now, here is a cool link that from a Japanese newspaper online that we were apart of. A few weeks ago we went rice planting and to green tea factory. The journalist fallowed us around all day and wrote an article. The news site is all in Japanese, but I google translated it so I could read it. If you click on the read more at the bottom of the article you can see many more photos.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u-genki.jp%2Findex_4.php&act=url