Trapped on a Navy Base

*View from our bed room window

Things to do on a navy base while your husband is at work:

1. Go downstairs to the caffe for a double espresso and a giant brioche.

2. Read cnn.com for an hour or two.

3. Plan a huge dinner to cook throughout the day to kill time.

4. Realize your husband accidentally took your military ID to work with him so you cannot enter the grocery store.

5. Panic

6. Return a movie, rent a movie.

7. Plead with the man who guards the super market to let you in. He does!

8. Realize you don't have the one euro coin required to rent a shopping cart.

9. Lug a really heavy basket around and get grumpy.

10. Buy a sandwich roll made out of pretzel. Happy again.

11. Run into 2 people you know because there is nowhere to hide here.

12. Realize that there are no parking spaces anywhere near the hotel.

13. Ponder what to do for the next 5 hours....