My city

I've always been a Detroiter. When anyone asks where I'm from, I rarely say "Southwest Michigan"; it's always "I'm from Detroit". While living in the Atlanta area, it makes me miss my city even more. Atlanta is an amazing city with a ton to do (although we've done none of it cause it's too much of a hassle to go downtown with all the kids and we don't have any babysitters to help watch them just so we can go out and hang out). Everyone talks about the crime in Detroit, and yes it's true, the crime is bad, it's not as bad as Detroit. It's per capita and since Detroit is one of the smaller cities, we rank at the top for the crime rates. But when you take a city like Atlanta that has over 5 million people in the metropolitan area, you are going to have more crime. And the crime is so violent and so random. I have a friend who had 2 gunmen break into an apartment of a friend that she was with. It's estimated that they shot 32x. For what? They grabbed their purses and ran out the door. The only way my friend could escape was to jump out the 2nd story balcony, injuring her hand and breaking out all her front feet. It's now in court. It was a completely random crime. While this does happen in Detroit, I honestly just felt safer there. I didn't have an issue with driving to downtown Detroit, either with Tim or alone. I DO however, not go too far from home here in the ATL. Too much traffic; too many people; to much chaos.

The scenary here in Atlanta is beautiful and I've gotten used to coming up over a small hill and seeing a mountain in front of me. The smell of pinetrees is pretty amazing too, but there is nothing like Michigan's lakes and the soft grass. Here in Georgia its so dry. The rivers are low and the lakes are so far apart. Growing up in Waterford, we had a lake on every corner!!! And the grass here is so soft and prickly. You really can't walk barefoot on it because it really hurts your feet.

So, yes, I'm a Detroiter. I'm PROUD to be a Detroiter and can't wait to come home and be a fulltime Detroiter again!

Check out this blog for some great pictures of Detroit...the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. http://fadeddetroit.blogspot.com/

2 weeks!!!

2 weeks from today, I get to go home!!!! It's 8am right now and hopefully that that time in the morning I'll at least be to the Tennessee/Kentucky border, if not further (maybe Lexington)!!!

Pics of Tim

Tim is looking at trying out for rugby this fall and is training really hard for it. He's been doing weight training 3-4x a week at the gym and is really bulking up. I don't know if you can tell too much in these pics, but I thought I'd post them anyways. He has the perfect build for Rugby and when we were watching our Rugby team play in the finals the other day, he looks just like them! Yep, I just had to show him off. ;)