The End of an Era

Our time in Cedar City is winding down and as I am planning to tear apart the computer desk and pack it up today I decided to write one final post from our happy little apartment. I tend to deal pretty well with change and am not the type to get emotional over something like moving away. Nonetheless, I didn't want my lack of tears to be read as a lack love for this town and the friends and blessings that we have received here. Truly, we love Cedar City and will always look back on our time here as a special time in which our family grew in love and in size.


The following are the things that I will miss most about this cozy little town:

1. I will miss the way the whole place mobilizes for war during the deer hunt and the way that even the checkers at the grocery store wear hunter-orange to celebrate.

2. I will miss Friday night dates just wandering around Walmart because there really isn't much else to do.

3. I will miss the fact that there is never any traffic and I can get anywhere I want to go in under 10 minutes.

4. I will miss Pub salads.

5. I will miss watching and laughing about the "foam fighters" that gather every Saturday morning in Main Street Park.

6. Most of all I will miss all of our wonderful friends.

To help me get over the rough spots in the days ahead I will try to think more about what I won't miss about Cedar City, this list includes:

1. I definitely won't miss trying to make it up our steep driveway in the winter and inevitably sliding back down it and eventually parking in the road.

2. I won't miss the wind that never seems to stop blowing.

3. I won't miss all of the hills and never finding a flat piece of ground to run on.

4. I won't miss the way that Cedar City spends all of their money on festivals and doesn't save enough to pay drivers to clear the snow off the streets in the winter.

5. And finally, I will not miss all of the really big trucks with their big tires and the big clouds of exhaust they leave behind them.