I Made Plans

Well today I realised I broke a tried and true rule, Don't Make Plans. My husbands schedule has been the same all month and his duty rotation was decent enough that every few weeks he'd have one duty free. We decided that on the next duty free weekend we were going to take a day trip down to Legoland and then swing over to Busch Gardens on the next day to take advantage of the free tickets they offer to military families. Well we booked the hotel room and even made plans for this Saturday to go to a Mardi Gras pub crawl. Turns out this morning the duty sections changed. Now my husband has duty Saturday so our pub crawl tickets are useless and he'll have duty next Friday which was when we were supposed to leave for Legoland. I'm dissappointed but this is just one of those negative aspects to the Navy, you simply can not make plans that you can't change. Luckily we booked a refunable night at this hotel so we can cancel and get our money back, and I'm not too distraught aboutt the Mardi Gras tickets, it sucks don't get me wrong, but I'm far more dissappointed in the Legoland plans. Hopefully my husband will come home with better news, since this is just wife here-say and I'm sure he'll try to switch his duty day or do anything else he can to get out of this so we can still go on our mini vacation, even if we just have to move it back a little bit. 

Ugh somtimes the Navy really urks me, doing things with little to no consideratio for dependents and family, I know this is the military but when you are in port you could at least consider things like that. I'm sure if the CO had duty days and his wife had something planned he wouldn't change the duty rotation until after his wifes plans, well maybe if something isn't broke you just shouldn't fix it. One more day in a duty rotation is a retarded change, it's one thing to go from 5 days to 10 or 6 days to 3. But 5 days to 6, that's just dumb. You didn't really change that much and you aren't really helping anyone out, everyone that has a family that's been making plans and finding fun things to do around town before they change commands, move across country and start new lives somewhere else are all know thrown out of wack because who knows when you'll decide to change things again. I know this is a bitchy post, I don't really care though. This crap happens a lot. And I accept it but I also have the right to complain, and you have the right to read or not read my complaints. That's up to you but for now I've got the keyboard so I have the say LOL. It's not all bad, I have a really cool husband whom I'm sure will come in the door with a plan, Mardi Gras will certainly be off but he'll know what to do about the rest of the stuff. And then he'll make it all better as soon as he wraps those big hunky arms around me. 

UPDATE: Well he came home, the big lug, with the saddest look on his face. He wasn't able to change anything and the person that set it up was just trying to do something nice; he fucked it up, but he was just trying to do something nice so it's hard to stay mad. So we just moved somethings around  and we can still go to Legoland but we had to just scrap the bar crawl. I'm okay with that but well he's a sailor and he's being told he can't go on a bar crawl that he already paid for so that's kind of a sore subject. But all in all lesson learned. We were able to rebook the hotel and the silver lining is after that weekend he won't have anymore weekend duty days in that section. So there's something good.