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However, during the tour some of my friends from the unit I was with had the opportunity to snag a condo in Australia by switching with another couple who took theirs in Florida. So the four of us and their kids all went off to the land down under. We went from Sidney to Mildura and back again. It was a nice place and beautiful. A lot of winerys are located in Mildura and I like the fact you can have a garden all year round too! They had the most gorgous flowers! http://bwa.snowshoedesign.com/gallery/IvyMinx/Aussie/ Enjoy.

I was lucky enough to get an all expense paid vacation to Iraq for one year. Free meals, free gym, free theatre, free X box and Playstation games, and they even had a Pizza Hut. All I had to do was sweat my a$$ off and work all but one day a week. In the beginning we were working the whole week through but once we got settled we had a nice little routine going. I happen to be a construction equipment mechanic who worked at camp Anaconda. It wasn't the greatest place in the world...but it could have been worse. I was one of those Fobbits which means I never got to leave the base. Most of the mechanics didn't except those who were on contact trucks which were few. The rest of us were busy keeping machinery in line and that was about 200 some pieces of equipment. We did get a lot of mortars and a couple missles and even saw some IED's from the towers not to mention some idiots in a plane who dropped flares on the base and started a fire, but there wasn't much else except farm land and a few natives. If you want to see some pictures of the trip http://bwa.snowshoedesign.com/gallery/IvyMinx/IraqAlbum/ There you go.