Moving to Arizona

[lorsha]

Our Arizona / Vegas vacation was a real eye opener for Mark and I. We especially like the Kingman AZ area, and we plan on building a new home there. Early next year is the plan. Here in way upstate NY, our housing market is not that bad, so hopefully we'll get lucky. We have a few things to do to get the house ready, and should have it up for sale by the end of next month. We live in a desirable school district so hopefully that will help. We shall see ....

We're wondering what took us so long to go to Las Vegas. We spent 8 days there, and had a great time. We spent three nights at Wynn, and 5 nights at Mandalay Bay. I was recognized more times on this trip as "lorsha", then I had been in the last 9 years combined running our site. Was a lot of fun talking to people about my site. And not to mention it didn't hurt sales while we were away.

The topless club Moorea at Mandalay was quite nice. We spent about every afternoon there, hehe. Was so refreshing to get rid of those tan lines naturally.

We saw a couple of Cirque shows, did the luau at Imperial, Fantasy at luxor, and saw Kevin James. I just love that guy!

Mark loves his blackjack. He was up a couple grand after a few days, but ended up giving it back .... naturally.

Sunny days every day. WOW! What a concept. First day back here, and surprise - cloudy and raining. What a shocker. The nice part about Kingman AZ is that they are about 5,000 feet in elevation, and they stay on average 10-15 degrees cooler then surrounding areas. 97 is the highest average temperature in July / August. And they have all 4 seasons as well. We just love that. Nice upcoming area, with a lot of new home construction going on. We can build a nice place for $400k there, that would cost more like $800k+ in most of the Northeast.

We will not miss the northeast at all. We really won't. We just wish we had thought about this move 10 years earlier.

LOTS to catch up on work wise. Time to get to it.