Survey Says!!!

Yes, after a lot of anticipation and researching where we would like to go and checking out schools, we finally received our "unofficial" notice of where our next duty station will be.  And I got to say we maintain an open invitation to any one that wants to come visit.  Now that we have our assignment, we are looking closer at the school options for Crystal and the working opportunities for Jolene.  This is a much smaller post than Moscow, that is one of the main things the assignment officer tries to do.  If you were at a big post most likely, you next with be small and vice-verse.  Though not always the case as we have one friend that is going from a small post in Chengdu, China to a small embassy in Suva.  Suva you ask?  Fiji islands in the middle of the Pacific.  I think he's willing to take in visitors too.  (We might have to go visit him there.)

Hard to believe that this time next year we'll probably already be back in the States on home leave and a few short weeks after that in training in DC then off to. . .  Wow I guess I have said where we are going yet.  I know some of my colleagues already know.  You know I'm not sure who's taking my slot here, though I don't know who all the bidders are, some of us are keep each other up on our assignments through an online spreadsheet.  Pretty handy actually, it was really interesting to see where people were wanting to go and what they were planning on bidding on.

Okay, I'm done rambling, back to our posting . . . Well here are some pictures, scroll down slowly and see if you can figure it out before  you get to the bottom.

So a city by water

and a city by the desert

with some resorts

and some restrictions on 

what women can wear

SCUBA

more SCUBA.  

We all plan on getting certified to dive while here

Got it yet?