Foreign land, the final post

Moving here has made me aware of a few things that I took for granted in AZ.  As much as I disliked the heat of Phoenix and love the weather here, there is something to be said for central climate control.  There have been several days, or even weeks that it got pretty hot here.  Our house has little if any insulation and just a little wall air conditioner.  It's not big enough to cool more than the living room so the bedrooms become saunas!  But I am so grateful that it was only a few weeks that got pretty uncomfortable and the weather is beautiful now and it's always been nice in the mornings and nights.  The hardest part was that Alana would wake up cuz she was hot and then wake up in the mornings b/c she is cold! I also miss my Maricopa County libraries!  We have 2 that I can use but they are not connected so if they don't have a book, you don't get it!  One of them is soooo rinky dink I have almost quit going b/c there have been 3 times that they have just been closed in the middle of the day!  Lastly, the residents of Phoenix metro are so spoiled with all the master planned communities!  Here there seems to have been no thought to the roads and shopping complexes.  It seems like every shopping center I try to enter there is no where to turn in.  So you go up to the next intersection to make a U-turn and, of course, U-turns are illegal at that intersection.  So you have to turn left go down another street to find somewhere else to turn around, it's just plain crazy!  So next time you are loathing the blistering heat of the valley, remember the little things that have intrinsic value!