Holy Smokes!!

A few things have been going through my mind in the last couple of days.
Brad and I have been counting down the days till he gets to leave, and I've been counting down till I leave. He wrote me an email thismoring ( a short and sweet one ) saying that he most likely wont be online for the next day or two. He then explained that after his last night at work (Friday night) that he would go back 'home' pack up and then leave very early in the morning to start his adventure to Ireland.
This is really going to happen. I am going to meet my husband in Ireland. I will be getting on a plane to go and see him in this beautiful foreign country.

I was just looking at the most recent picture I tagged myself in of brad from a fellow solider. Brad looks like he is deep in thought or staring off into space. one or the other. But it crossed my mind "I am going to be seeing this in just a few short days!" I know this is probably very redundant, but imagine not seeing your loved one for 8 months, and then fathom reuniting with them. How do you see it?
Hopefully, if all goes to plan, Brad will get there a day ahead of me so he can ride down with the McQuistons to pick me up from the airport.
Am I going to be looking out and waiting for him? Will he find me and surprise me from behind? I know for sure I am going to cry, but will I laugh? I wont want to let him go. Its hard to imagine how its all going to go down.

I am reading this wonderful book, The Homefront Club, written by a Navy wife. Within one chapter, she wrote about how HER homecoming looked like and how HIS homecoming looked like. I realize this isn't brad's homecoming, but its the closest thing we have to relate to right now. She had said that her vision was having her and the kids dressed to the 9's, no one else around. Having a great 'classic' reuniting of the family, getting in the pretty and nicely washed SUV and then going and getting ice cream like nothing had happened. HIS vision was sneaking into the house in the middle of the night, unannounced, going to each bed room and kissing the kids, as if they hadn't been separated for a year. he slipped into bed with his wife ( and she didn't freak out that a strange body was getting into bed with her ) and they cuddled . .. the end.
So, I could have one vision of how seeing Brad for the first time is going to be, but more than likely, Brad has a completely different vision. I would like to pick HIM up from the airport, but I think that's going to be harder than I initially thought. Besides, I've picked him up enough in the past from airports, its his time to pick ME up. :-)
am I going to run to him? i don't even know what the Dublin airport is like, will we have a big audience? Will people think "whoa, those crazy Americans!" lol. who cares what other people think.

I'm just so stinkin excited to see my husband, its unreal.
Horray!!