Sailboat Reflection

WELCOME

Welcome to my blog about our new adventures about moving from sub-tropical coastal South Carolina (Charleston) to a city in the Sonoran Desert (Tucson). My first struggle is to learn to spell Tucson correctly as I tend to want to switch the c and the s!
Just a brief history of each city first:
Charleston (formerly Charles Town) was founded in 1670 and moved to its present location in 1680 by English settlers. Charleston was a focal point for the American Revolution (1176-1785) and was seized and was under British control through 1782. it was also the first state to secede from the Union and the first shot of the American Civil War was fired here on to Fort Sumter where the Union army was holed up. It is city filled with history and has been beautifully preserved. It is continually voted as one of the best cities to visit and the friendliest people.
Tucson, Arizona is located about 120 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the Mexican border. The Spanish colonizers tried to seize the land from the local Native tribes in the 1770's, It was officailly founded by the Irish exporer Hugh O'Connor in 1775 and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.Tucson is considered one of the "Mega-Trend" cities of the 21st century. It has the beauty of the Sonaran desert as well as being surrounded by five mountain ranges. It is also considered a very "artsy" area which is good for me. It is a huge area for photography and hopefully, will make me grow and push myself further in that field.
Tom will be working at Raytheon Missile Defense Systems. He will doing speechwriting and other executive communications duties.
We are looking forward to all of our opportunities and hope you will check back with my blog from time to time to see how "jen's journey" is proceeding.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day!







I am so happy I got the chance to spend Valentine's with my sweetie! What a nice weekend it has been. We would have never thought we would be living a part a few months ago! Just goes to show you one never knows what life will bring! We should all enjoy our moments with our loved ones for you never know when things will change!



We have such a nice weekend but it has really sped by! First of all, the beautiful snow! What fun we had with that. We played in it as it was snowing and Saturday morning we went walking around Palmetto Park. After that we went and built a snowman with our nephew. That was followed by sliding down some local oysters. That is where we were when we got a call from our realtor with an offer on our house! We are glad but the offer is not that great so we shall see what happens with our counter. But we had 3 more showings after that and got feedback that someone else may be interested in making an offer! So we shall see. I do not worry as I am a strong believer that things like this work out how they are supposed to!



Today Tom made me breakfast which was really nice. Then we had our family over for a much belated birthday party for our nephew. That was a lot of fun too.



So it was a great weekend but, alas it ends tomorrow. I really hate to see Tom go but hopefully with all of our house activity I will be joining him soon.

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