And our new home is.......

Newport, RI!

Our plans have changed! We were awaiting orders for VA Beach, VA, but Adam received notice this morning that it's Newport now. I am ecstatic! I loved Newport when I visited him while he was attending Naval Justice School there just before we came here. It's beautiful! The weather's nice....although I hear the winters are pretty harsh, but we're from Utah, we should be used to harsh winters.

Adam got notice this morning that the monitor (person in DC in charge of figuring out where we go next) took the final list of all the JAG placements that are rotating this summer to the Commandants lawyer for a final review and he only made one change....Adam. He cut Adam's billet (job) in VA Beach and put him in Newport. Adam will be an instructor at Naval Justice School. He is not as ecstatic as me, he'd much rather be in the courtroom than teaching, but he'll have plenty of PT time, and play a lot of softball, along with teaching. It will be different experience than in the courtroom, but I'm sure valuable experience in other ways. Still don't have orders in hand, but should have them soon, and then know an exact PCS (moving) date. We should move around the end of June, so we can vacation and see family for about a month before getting started in RI.

I get sad when I think about leaving Japan, I have loved it so much and still have so much to see and do, I really have to try not to think about it too much. But this really helps...I am really excited about Newport.