Greetings from Brisbane!!!

So I've fallen a little behind, but no time like the present to get caught up!  We've been in Iraq for a little over a month now and were in Kuwait for about a month before that.  Everything is ok in Iraq, the food could be better (but it could also be alot worse).  The living areas are pretty nice and Lyle and I have plenty of room.  We finally got a tv delivered via walmart.com last week, but our cable seems to be a little shady.  So far all we can get is the Arabic version of CNN.  Ooops...  I work and work out and go to bed and wake up and do it again...Lyle works, and works, and works, and goes to bed and does it all over again.  Lyle and I decided to take our two week leave early in the deployment because we knew not a lot of people would want to go then and we'd have no problem getting to go together...which brings me to why I'm writing this in Australia!  Here shortly we will be getting ready to hop on a plane to go to Fiji to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary!  We're sooooo excited.  In the last 24 hours, we have visited 3 countries and have one more on the way for a total of a whole bunch of countries in one day's time frame.  We are very excited about visiting Fiji and can't wait to tell everyone all about it!  We love you guys!