Summer Camp

I was walking home from the gym, aka; fitness center, yesterday and I started to think how Al Udeid was sort of like summer camp. The similarities are endless. In summer camp, everything was always better at the start; the food, sleeping on the ground, and bathing in the lake. The experience of eating 'camping food' is always good the first couple of nights, but by the third or fourth night, you really just want a table, napkin and a glass with ice. Same goes for sleeping and bathing. After a few days, you just want civilization. It's the same here. The food is good enough and there is enough variety, that at the beginning it seems pretty good. But after 6 weeks of taco's on Monday, I'll be ready to poke my eye out with a taco shell.

At summer camp, there are always stories about the girls camp across the lake or some crazy story about one of the parents along for the trip. Basically we have the same thing here with rumors amongst the people in the office or the host nation.

Plus, it's hot and dirty.