Things I miss about Tucson...

We've been living in Colorado 2 months now and we, of course, are loving it!  It is everything we wanted it to be and we still can't believe that this is summer and that we are still outside everyday doing things in the "heat".  90-95 is considered "hot" here, but even though it might be in the 90s during the middle of the day the shade is still cool and the nights are too, so we can totally handle this so called summer.  I'm sure it will be a different story once winter gets here!  We really like the neighborhood we've been staying in with Dom's cousins and we are excited to move into our new house only 1 mile away in about a month.  The neighborhood is so family friendly and more secluded feeling then our Tucson neighborhood (although Target next door did have it's perks ;).  Our new house will be right next to a park and across the street from a ranch with horses.  It will be so nice to let Logan grow up here!
Among all these things we really love about Colorado, there are a few things that I miss about Tucson...
1.  Of course the number one thing is our friends and family!  Who will hopefully come visit us soon ;)
2.  Tucson has the best sunsets, Colorado hasn't been able to compare to that yet.
3.  The Tucson airport is the easiest airport ever!  And while the Denver airport is just as close to us as the Tucson one was, the Denver airport is a lot more complicated (not just a one way loop haha) but I managed it pretty well so far.
4.  The Tucson Zoo was great too because of how small it was and it didn't carve out too much of your day to get there, explore, see all the animals, snack and still be home by little man's naptime.  The Denver zoo is awesome and I do love it, but since it's so big it feels like we are rushing through it to try and see everything before Logan loses his marbles.  Maybe we just haven't perfected the timing yet!
5.  We went to a few different churches in Tucson before we ended up settling at St. Pius and although before Logan we were not fans of that church, after he came along we realized just how much friendlier and understanding the people were of kids there.  And we usually paid attention to the homily even if we were somewhat entertaining a child.  We enjoyed going to that church.  The Boulder area is seriously lacking in it's nice, friendly not too formal church approach.  We've tried a lot of different Catholic churches here and they all bore us to tears, the only one we've gone to more then once is because 1- it's closest and 2- it has a cry room...and those are the only reasons to go to it.  I told Dom that Colorado is sucking the Catholic right out of me.  I dread Sundays and going to church, Logan's getting easier to entertain and keep quiet but that doesn't make the actual service any better sometimes haha.
6.  Storytime at the library was one of Logan's favorite things and we went starting at 6 mos until we moved away and the librarian was so good with kids and he always had fun.   The Erie library is better in it's child book section and the fact that it has a train table and other fun toys inside, but the storytime is a snooze.  It's more like trying to keep Logan still in church then the Tucson version which is getting up and moving, singing, crafts and reading short books that keep their attention.
7.  We've eaten at some very delicious restaurants here and really it's almost hard to find a chain restaurant here as opposed to them being everywhere in Tucson.  So on that note Colorado wins on unique restaurants and there are a much wider selection of 'farm to table' sorts.  But there are some Tucson restaurants that I do miss, namely Oregano's- where else can you get green chili pizza and a pizookie!  And Ba-dar, we have yet to find a good chinese food restaurant and we always end up comparing it to Ba-dar because it's soooo good!  I thought I might miss things like Eegee's or Mexican food, but I haven't yet.  Probably because we have a place in Boulder called Snarf's and it's subs are a million times better then Eegee's and I guess I am not the hugest fan of icy drinks which is why you go to Eegee's right (unless you are hungover haha).  We did find a good mexican food place in Longmont about 25 minutes away, the other mexican we have eaten around here is just so-so, so I'm sure once we are here longer I will wish we had a Poco Y Mama's or Guadalajara Grill :)

All in all, each city has it's pros and cons but we couldn't be happier here, and these things just give us a good reason to go back and visit often :)