Lonnggg Day

Today was very long. We flew all the way to afghanistan just to be turned away by a wall of sand. It was so thick you couldn't see more than a half mile and it rose to 9000 feet. When we finally landed, it was awful. Sand everywhere. I was stuffed up in under a minute. we spent about an hour on the ground and it was way too long. However, as we departed, there was this surreal sight of the full moon juxtaposed with the sun. The moon was on my left, full and extremely bright, just above the horizon. The sun on my right was just setting and was in the exact same place. It was quite a sight to burst out of the sand and see the moon and the sun having a staring contest. Amazing.