Tucson

So I went to Tucson this last weekend. I flew in Wednesday night and got home last night, Monday. I wasn't exactly ecstatic to go home. I was excited for the break from work and to see family and friends, but I left Tucson for a reason. Among other reasons, Tucson had become somewhat... boring... So I wasn't bouncing out of my seat trying to be the first one off the plane. I'd been trying to go home for almost a month. I missed Maile's baptism at the end of August because I couldn't get work off so I had been trying to get down since then and hang out with Maile a little bit. I finally got a chance to go home. And I'm glad I did. Yes, while Tucson doesn't always have the ideal nightlife or social experiences, Tucson is home. There's a feel about Tucson that just makes me comfortable. It's the place I know best. It's where I have easy access to watch all U of A games. It's where my closest friends are. It's where my family is (most of it). It's where I can get my Eegee's fix. Or Nico's. It's where I can go just about anywhere and it's guaranteed that I'll see someone I know. It's where 94% of my favorite memories were spent. And being away from it has made me realize, I DO miss Tucson. I didn't know I'd ever say that. But I do. My mind is still made up that when I get married and/or start a family that I want to live in a small town with lots of trees, but Tucson will always be home. And I like that.

I'm not a big picture-taker. Some of my friends take pictures every chance they get. Sometimes I think that is cool and wished I did that. Because sometimes I'm like, "ooh I wish I had a picture of that one time. If so-and-so were with me we'd definitely have a picture." But sometimes I just forget to whip out my camera. But I did take a few when I was in Tucson. Here are mis favoritos:





My parents have one chicken. Yeah. Just one. It cracks me up. I think they are trying to train her to lay eggs? I don't even know if that's possible. But I think they said she only lays a couple here and there. Either way, they have a chicken. And I took a picture with it.





My good friend Kacy Brown and I went to get our nails done, just because we felt like it. I've always wanted to have zebra-print acrylics, so I finally fulfilled my dream. Check it off the bucket list. Next up... surfing.





Oh Eegee's. Is there anymore I can say about a FREE Party Pak of WATERMELON Eegee's?? One of my old managers from Harbor Freight really hooked me up on this one. His wife works
for corporate Eegee's and so she was able to get this for me for free. I crave this stuff. SO GOOD.





If you've ever let a kid play with your front-facing camera on your phone, you know it keeps them busy for a while. But if you have a front-facing camera WITH an app that distorts their face in a hundred different ways, it'll keep them busy for hours. Literally. I had a similar app before, but then Kendric introduced me to this one. It seriously has so many different ways to screw up your face. And literally like 20 times a day Maile and Aleigha asked if they could use my phone to either play a game or take hundreds of distorted pictures. These are two of my favorites. Those girls are crazy.





There's this park in the buttcrack of Tucson called Agua Caliente Park. It's at the very north end of Houghton, off of Tanque Verde. Kacy, Patricia, Robyn and I went there about a year and a half ago. I don't know why in the world we went there, because none of us lived anywhere near that park, but it turned into Kacy's favorite park. It IS a great park. It's unlike any park in Tucson really. It has a pond, pretty sure it's manmade. And it has palm trees everywhere and grass and it's really pretty. Well, us 4 decided to go back again. Kacy is one of those people who takes a picture for every step she takes. The park was no different occasion. We weren't there that long because as Tricia put it, we were "sweating like hogs." Eww. But in the pond there are a bunch of little turtles. And when we went to the edge of the pond, for some reason all the turtles started flocking toward us. Do turtles flock? I don't know. But they did. I think the most we counted in a little area was 14. I like turtles.





So my family and I went to Five Guys one night. Sidenote, BEST burgers ever. I crave them. Anywho. Two things about Five Guys if you didn't know. 1. They have peanuts you can eat while you wait for your food. You just fill up a little box and munch away. *Munch* is a gross word. 2. They have index cards and crayons that you can write things on and hang up on a bulletin board. Most people write like, "Five Guys rules" or just "Five Guys!" Boring stuff like that. Not Kendric and I. Kendric decided, "I'm gonna write like a little kid." And he left the "t" out of "peanuts." Essentially, Kendric likes peanus. Nay. Kendric LOVES peanus. Say that out loud. I, on the other hand, just like peanuts. Normally I wouldn't post a picture like this because I know my mom would say something like, "ugh, Caitlin you're so offensive." But in this case, my dad is the one who took the picture, and my mom and dad were the ones laughing the hardest. So I feel justified in posting this picture. At least it's not on facebook, right?





I've recently discovered that I like flying. I'm sure I would get sick of it really quickly if I had any amount of frequent flyer miles racked up, but I enjoy the occasional short trip. Like Tucson to Vegas. Except, I don't love it when there is a screaming baby right behind me for the majority of the flight. That is no fun. So I took pictures out my window to keep me from wanting to turn around and kick that baby in the mouth. Kidding. But really. I had to do something to keep myself busy. I had about as many airplane pictures in my phone as I had Maile and Aleigha crazy pictures. I feel like that was a weird sentence. But I don't know how to fix it. Anyway, this picture was my favorite out of all of them. It's right as we were leaving Tucson.

THE END.