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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Things I miss about Minnesota

1. Mi Familia
2. Mis amigos
3. Old Dutch potato chips
4. Top the Tater
5. Kemps Ice Cream
6. Sebastian Joe's...gotta love the raspberry chocolate chip!
7. The Suburbs...It's such a pain to have to drive 30 min to the nearest city.
8. Noodles and Co.
9. Target...with a nice selection, esp clearance items. And if you can't find it at one Target, the next one is just 5 min away!
10. Not being the only person with liberal views.
11. The snowplowing.
12. Potbelly
13. The lakes! And walking around them with mi madre.
14. The shopping selection
15. Ice skating at Centennial Lakes
16. Chillin at the Spyhouse
17. The Walker Arts Center and the Sculpture Garden
18. The Guthrie
19. The Original Pancake House (mouth watering as we speak)
20. The rainy season and the storms...gotta love it when the sky suddenly turns pitch black in the middle of the afternoon
21. The diversity...going anywhere and seeing people from all walks of life.
22. Como Park
23. Duluth and the North Shore
24. Going to Minnesota Blue gigs at Dulono's Pizza
25. The moisture making everything all green and beautiful
26. Summer bonfires with friends
27. Cities 97 and the Current...haven't found a decent radio station in Idaho yet.

And despite the fact that I miss home and how much I complain about Idaho, it does have some good things about it...I guess ;)

1. The mountains. Chad always has to point out how small they are every time I comment on them but they are still beautiful.
2. Enjoying the scenery on the 30 min drive to the next city
3. Living down the street from the temple. What a lovely daily reminder it is of what is most important. And it makes it that much easier to attend on a regular basis.
4. Rupe's Burgers
5. Rush hour is non-existent!
6. Our apartment. It's not much to look at but it's roomy; we actually have a dining room and our kitchen, bedroom, and living room are a very nice size.
7. Our ward and my calling
8. Living close to Chad's family. It's given me a great chance to get to know them and become more than just an in-law.
9. Wal-Mart. They're much nicer here which makes it easier to get over my bias against it because there's nowhere else to shop.
10. Winco. Greatest grocery store ever.
11. Harper's Homemade white bread. Greatest bread ever.
12. The Greenbelt. Makes me not miss the lakes TOO much :)
13. Rhode's Rolls
14. Craigo's Pizza
15. No humidity!
16. BYU-Idaho campus, esp during the summer.
17. The small town charm. It's nice to live in a place where nobody is really in a rush to get anywhere.
18. I live 15 min from the city where television was invented. I know...who woulda thunk that tv was invented in Idaho?!
19. Playing Glow-in-the-Dark Hide-and-go-Seek in the caves outside Rexburg. It's pretty awesome :)
20. Who doesn't love potatoes?! But it really is unfortunate to live amongst so many potatoes and not have Top the Tater.
21. Living in a place that is so different from the place I grew up. It's always good to experience new things :)
22. Hastings Bookstore
23. Deseret Book everywhere! Have I mentioned that I love bookstores?
24. People here don't look at me funny when I tell them I'm LDS.
25. The weather here is very similar to Minnesota. It's nice not to have to get used to that along with everything else.

I really do need to stop complaining about Idaho so much. I have a lot to be grateful for. :)



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