Travelog post for: Zoe

Hi Mom!!!!

My Delta flight landed at the Albert J. Ellis airport in Jacksonville.  I was happy to find out that my host family only lives five minutes away!!  My hosts were happy to find me in the mailbox and says thank you for the postcards and treats.  My host family is from California but have lived in North Carolina for the past 20 years.  My host dad is a Marine and guess what?  He found out from my host mom that one of my goals is to fly inside a Helicopter, well he works on the Marine Corps Air Station where the V22 Ospreys are located!!  The V22 is only located in ONE place in the entire world and it is here!!  I am told I will get to tour the base and sneak out on the flight line for some up close action!!  You have to have a security clearance to get flight line access, but I am getting to be a special honorary Marine for the day!! 

I arrived in winter and the winter in North Carolina is usually very mild.  My host lives 30 minutes from the beach.  As you probably know the US is getting some REALLY freaky weather right now.  My host told me the day after Christmas it snowed 8 inches here!! Then two weeks ago it snowed AGAIN and another 5 inches was dumped!!! Guess what??? IT IS GOING TO SNOW TONIGHT!!! I cant wait to go out and play in the snow!!

Anyways I thought I would post my arrival photos for you!!  Here I am getting out of my travel envelope.



Here I am with my treats and post cards.



My host mom has a ton of TVs! When I get out of my envelope some of the TVs that are home right now come  over to greet me.  Here I am with Ladomar, Fifi, Marty and Draper Duck!!! I am happy to see another bird in the house!! Draper Duck tells me he was named after Don Draper on my hosts favorite TV show *Mad Men* 



Well mom my birthday is next month and so is my host dads! I am looking forward to getting to know North Carolina!! The time change from Pacific to Eastern is making me a bit tired so I am going to go take a nap!!

Love,
Zoe