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Happy Father's Day! We celebrated at the Yellow Ribbon event here in Anaheim. When we arrived here on Friday afternoon, we walked down on the Garden Walk which is near the Hilton where we are staying. What a sad sight. Half of the businesses in that area were closed up. One of the shops posted a sign that they were only accepting cash "from here on out". The atmosphere was still enjoyable, but there just were not as many people as we expected.

We ate at an establishment called McCormicks. Kenyon had the Father's Day special which was prime rib and creme' bruele' for dessert. He really enjoyed it. I had a chicken dinner. I told Kenyon that the prime rib was his Father's Day Gift. There were also very few people in the restaurant and it was 6PM. We were both thinking that maybe that restaurant would be the next to go, but the waiter told us that the dinner crowd didn't show up until 8PM.

Last night after the last meeting, we took a little walk and ended up at a Mall near Disney Adventure. We went into the World of Disney shop and bought a bouquet of suckers for the grandkids and Kenyon bought a Mickey Mouse shot glass for our daughter who collects shot glasses.

We are finished with our meetings today and are packing up to leave. I am very glad that I attended this event with Kenyon. I didn't want to go. I thought it would be another boing, "this is the form you fill out and this is how you fill it out," meeting, but it was a very interractive, informative, and networking meeting. I learned a few things about some of Kenyon's emotions that he had not shared with me. Some of the power point presentations were focused on communicating with your soldier and helping him get his feelings out in the open, some taught the soldier's family what to expect from him (like crazy sleeping habits) and why he does them. Yes, I am very happy that I came.

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