As the title says, this entry is way over-due. As most of you probably know, I relocated to Arizona two weeks ago today, and I'll share some of those experiences with you. I'll throw in some pictures so you can just scan through and look at those, which I'm sure a lot of you will do. That is, if anybody even reads this. Also, I'll give some opinions on the Boston sports world (of course), but that will be a minimal part of the entry. I'll also give you some thoughts on the future and what's next for me.
Arizona so far has been hit or miss. Some days are great, but some days drag and I can hardly stand it. Just to give you some background, I came out here to find a job, but I'm finding out that (A) there are no jobs, and (B) Phoenix is a pretty lame city in general. The "downtown" is about 4 blocks and consists of about 5 restaurants and a bunch of office buildings.
Since I've been here, I've actually done a lot considering I usually hang out all day by myself while Danny and Ernie are at work with the Suns. The Phoenix Mercury (WNBA) has been on a run since I landed. The second night I was here, I went to the game and saw them clinch a spot in the WNBA Finals where they're currently playing the Indiana Fever. I've been to 3 games already and tonight is the final game in the finals at home, which I think I'm going to despite the Red Sox playing game 2 in LA at the same time. Thank god for Verizon Mobile browsers.
Because Danny works at the arena, I've been able to go to these games for free, which is awesome. Last week I also watched the Phoenix Suns play their first preseason game where they blew the Partizan out of the water by about 30 points. Unfortunately, Steve Nash had the flu and didn't play, which was disappointing, but there will be more games coming up.
I also went to the Arizona Diamondbacks' last home game game against the Padres where they won. The stadium is amazingly nice, and is indoors. I wish there was more time left in the season because I'd like to see them play again. Unfortunately, their team is pretty awful so they didn't make it to the postseason.
To get around the city, I've been using the Light Rail transportation system, which is just a train that runs from one end of Phoenix into Mesa. So far, I've seen Scottsdale and Tempe besides Phoenix, and both of those towns are much nicer and appear to have more things to do. Tempe seems like it's where it's at since that is where ASU is where some 50,000+ students go to school. I went over to the campus to walk around one day. I saw many pretty people and the campus was about 50x nicer than Umass (but I'll always love Umass!).
In terms of adventure, I hiked through the White Tank Mountains where I saw several hundred cacti and was stupid enough to step on a dead cactus hard enough so that it broke, flew up, and stuck into my leg. I was able to pull out all off the needles pretty easily though, thank god. Not much wildlife there, but I did see a rabbit and some road-runners (yay). Here are some pictures from that day:
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I hope that you are not disappointed out there in Phoenix, it looks like a beautiful location. It does sound like it can't hold up to your partying standards! lol
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