Family Day

Matt passed his final checkride on November 24th, yes that was a long time ago, and then he had a few weeks to "out process" from Ft. Rucker.  On December 11 I drove by myself to St. Louis.  On Monday I had to do the walk-through on the house to be ready for the Friday closing.  Tuesday morning bright and early, Matt's parents, brother, our friend Chris and I headed back to Alabama in my parent's mini van.  It might be more fun to make a 12 hour trip with 4 other people, but it's still 12 straight hours in a car.  Wednesday we got to hang out with Matt and see the Apache up close.  He flies a pretty cool aircraft.

Chris

The Pilot

Steck Family

This was going to be our Christmas card but if you were wondering if yours got lost in the mail, it didn't.  Just didn't get them out this year.

A little game of cards after a long day packing up the apartment.

The 4-time Poop-head himself

Thursday morning Matt headed out for graduation practice while the rest of us finished cleaning the apartment and packing the truck.  We then went to graduation and a luncheon (post with pictures to come as soon as I get the pics from Chris) and ate some good southern fried chicken.  Around 2:00pm Chris, Matt and I headed back to St. Louis.  We arrived around 2:30am and then Chris continued on to Columbia so that he could be at work.  That should be my last drive from Ft. Rucker to St. Louis.

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