On Christmas Eve the J2 Branch had dinner together in the German DFAC. The food was ok, but not nearly as good as home would have been. I was at least able to sit and eat with friends and colleagues.
We had Christmas morning off which was nice. Since Chapel is at 1030, I didn’t have to go 2 miles to work and then 2 miles back this week. I had a special breakfast of Chocolate/Fudge Pop Tarts (thanks Karen), a banana, cranberry juice, and a quad mocha latte from Greenbeans.
We decided to go to the US DFAC for Christmas dinner around 1400. Since nothing was emailed out, or posted in a prominent way (read on) we figured everyone (US and Coalition) was able to eat at the same time. But, we were wrong. The Army dude running headcount showed us the PowerPoint slide (Dark Grey background with grey lettering) taped half way down the black door to the DFAC (the entrance way is covered and dark) that explained who could eat when and said it had been there for a month. Gee, how silly of us not to have noticed it.
So there I sat eating a meal that didn’t look as good as it should have. It was good, but with nobody to eat with it wasn’t that festive. I understand special times for US only at Thanksgiving…it’s a US holiday. But Christmas is international and being there wasn’t a line when we showed up what would it have mattered? Ah, the Army still can’t get stuff right even after being in existence for more than 2 centuries.
We finished up our Christmas eatery with the final free Christmas bratwursts in the Atrium tonight. Yum Yum!
“Frohe Weihnachten” and “God Jul!”
