Oh the places we will see...

Allen is going to APS Corporate Headquarters for a year. His new job will begin July 11th. On my birthday we went to the Valley, he had a Peer Group meeting on Wednesday and we spent most of those tree days looking at places to rent for our year in the Valley of the SUN (hot weather!!!) Oh the places we saw, expensive and then places we didn't even get out of the car, just turned around in the parking lot and went to the next place.Allen wanted to live in downtown within walking distance for him to work, well there wasn't an apartment available at the "Met" till August, this is the place that his co-workers had suggested in their move to "Corporate"... so the next place had a one bedroom that the window faced a wall for almost $1,200 a month w/o utilities.. so Allen said we could look in Mesa close to the 202 and see if we could find anything less than that... We have rented a condo in Mesa and it is quite, off the beaten path and even next to a corn field! We are a bit overwhelmed by this latest challenge in our lives; the hour is fast approaching to our arrival and the boxes are slowly getting packed. We will return often to JC and take grandkids for a stay. I use to tell Allen I wanted to go back to Mesa but came to the conclusion it wasn't going to happen; and our lives and hearts have grown around this little bit of heaven that we love so much, the people make this town the place you want to live we have been so blessed to live here and raise our family here and I have never regretted that choice to live here. So now we will get to have a different adventure in our lives... till the next post