(Part 1 of ?)
Yep, it's small. Yesterday we ran errands all around town. There are four main streets to deal with: Main (duh), Broadway, Park Lane (Somebody liked Monopoly?), and Tamarack. That's it. There's lots of little streets, though and the Air Force Base (in the future to be known as AFB), which I have no clue about.
Drove past our soon-to-be house. Still looks cute, though the pathway & sidewalk need redoing. Eventually. It's not on my urgent timeline. Not only is United Grocery across the road from it, a laundromat is next to the store. So, in the meantime, places to shop & clean clothing. And our storage unit is just down the road.
From the motel where we're currently staying, the Wal-mart is just a few minutes walk, as is the bank, our mailbox, and other stores. We're off Main Street (see paragraph One), so everything is here and convenient.
We cruised around the reservoir yesterday. It is surrounded by grass and parks and I guess is the place to walk and picnic and play. We didn't do anything of that sort, though, because after the rain of the day before, it was more like swampland than parkland. Still, we saw some interesting waterbirds and lots of Canadian geese. Apparently they like it here.
And we've met the ward...some of them...well, probably most of them. Last night the Young Men had a fundraising luau dinner for Scout Camp (In June...Jonathan made it in time!). Analiese, true to form, was off like a shot making friends. A gal in the ward (it is going to take me a while to learn & remember names), said that there are seven girls in Activity Days and they are all nice and friendly. Good, so is she!
It wasn't a huge group, like we're used to, but those who were there participated well. Because of the AFB, there are lots of young families, so they have many little children. They even put up a kiddie table for ward events! They had plenty of games for the kids, tossing, coconut rolling, limbo, etc. and the Scouts and their leaders put on a condensed modernized version of Johnny Lingo (it was quite funny). Then they had a pie auction...not to eat, but to throw at the Scouts. The Scoutmaster earned $45 on himself alone!
They also partied long and hard. It started at 6:30 and we finally left after 9:15. I don't know how much they earned, but they worked hard at it. They offered dinner, virgin pina coladas, dessert, and pie tossing. But they seem a friendly lot (the RS president gave me a tour around the building) and, given time, we will fit in. Because they have so much turnover, they're not unfriendly to strangers.
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