Friday, April 19, 2013

Preparing to say goodbye to El Paso

It is officially my last weekend in El Paso.  It is absolutely crazy.  As much as I get annoyed with living here, it has been quite an experience.  I also do feel very comfortable driving all over this town and know all the roads everywhere, which is quite an accomplishment for me.  Brandon and I explored this town so much and it amazes me when I know so many places and different ways to get there.  When we get to Fayetteville, I need to remember to explore randomly again.  The past few days I have been running errands on the west side of town, so I decided to take some pictures of the places I went a lot.

This is the mall on the Westside, Sunland Park Mall.  We have amazing shopping here, Sunland Park on the West side and the Outlet Mall of El Paso, on the east side we have Bassett Place mall which took me the longest time to realize it was actually a real mall, it has lots of stores on the outside so I thought it was just those stores, such as Marshalls, Kohls and Target.  We also have Cielo Vista mall on the east side and they are currently building yet another mall.  I know that we aren't going to get shopping like that other places.
This is a view of our mountains.  We have the Franklin Mountains and they run through right in the middle of the town.  They aren't like mountains you think of back east.  They are their own thing, and they are beautiful in their own way.  I do like looking out my back window and seeing the mountains.  Also in this picture you can see the lack of grass and our really weird trees.  Word of warning, these trees fight back.  I still have a scar on my arm from our first night here in El Paso.  We were on post at the hotel and Mia got loose so I went running after her.  I ran past a tree and I expected the tree leaves to move, but nope they fight back, cut you and scar you for life.
Another part of El Paso that is different.  We don't ever have clouds for some reason.  Very very rarely will you see a cloud in the sky.  It's weird, but I do see the beauty in the blue sky.
That's my random good El Paso thoughts of the day..
I probably won't make it to the East side again or Far East to take more pictures, I don't really have any needs over there.  Tomorrow is yard sale which I don't know if we are going to do and then cookout in the afternoon.
Micah is all ready to go driving..he's ready to leave.  Robin was telling him that it isn't a good idea to drink and drive.
I had to add that picture..a post isn't complete without a Micah picture.

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