The Possibilities...

So we're only about a month in and I'm already anticipating Quinn's graduation from MCCC.  On the schedule that I was given at the wive's social it says we should be able to meet to discuss our new duty station in early January.  It's not as much notice as I'd like, but I've accepted that with the Army I'm not going to have months to plan and research.  We'll still have just about 2 months to figure things out if all goes well.
Quinn has given me a list of our options (he's finally giving me a say this time ;) ).  We did a quick edit to remove any that we didn't want to go.  I've heard a lot of good things about Alaska, but I can't imagine living there for 3 years.  I could do a 6 month stay or maybe even a year, but 3 isn't going to happen.  I've also put my foot down about Kansas, Korea, Louisiana, and here (Columbus).  Quinn took NC off too.  We weren't left with much after that.  As much as I'd love to try for Hawaii or Germany I just don't think the timing is right.  It would have been fun a few years ago, but there's too much going on around here to leave it all.  I'll just have to talk Quinn into taking me on a few trips :)
We are keeping both on the list even though we've been told that unless they are ranked #1 and #2 you aren't going.  It's hard to get them when they are 1 or 2 so forget it if you have them at the bottom!  For now we have Fort Stewart in Savannah at the top and Fort Drum, New York a very close second.
Stewart would be awesome because we have friends there, have visited the area, and it's in a great location to do some FL adventures or even the Caribbean.  Drum is kind of a wild card.  We've heard good things about it (except that the winters get to -35 degrees).  It's only about 6 hours from my family though and it's somewhere completely different.  We'd probably be able to see into Canada while we're going to the food store!  Maybe that's an exaggeration, but we'd be super close.  We've never visited and we don't know anyone there so it would be a challenge and a toss up.  We could totally love it or I could regret that decision every year that I'm shoveling 3 feet of snow.
Good thing we still have a couple months to figure it out because it's tough.  Of course the Army could make it easy and tell us we can't go to one so we'd be stuck with the other.  They could also tell us that we can't go to either and totally throw us for a loop.  We'll see...