FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! Desert Mountain Elementary in Queen Creek, Arizona now has the pleasure of a student named Gretchen Holt!
There was plenty of tears and kicking and screaming, and Gretchen cried, too. (Ha Ha) She is doing better day to day and is very excited when she comes home, just not at the drop off. Kindergarten is full day, 8:15-2:50, and it is a big change! It's nice and sweaty, but they don't let them go outside if it's over 105 degrees. I guess that's when Arizonians (or however, I haven't decided what they call, or I guess WE call, ourselves!) consider it hot! We are learning new ways to deal with the heat and record fast buckling of the seat belt - so you don't have to have contact with it for more than a few nanoseconds!
A few tips I never knew about Phoenix - so first of all we live in Queen Creek, which is a suburb of Mesa, which is a suburb of Phoenix. It's pretty giant out here. Anyway, It is actually HUMID here in the summer because of monsoon rains. Water from the faucet is hot and hotter because the water pipes run through the attic! (we are going to have to come up with a different last resort discipline of the cold shower, seeing as we don't have cold water!) Grass is optional in a yard. Super Target is approximately every 1.3 miles - not that I am complaining - and gas stations are incredibly hard to locate. One more thing, it is actually possible to sweat from every pore in your body!
Ann,
ReplyDeleteI laughed reading this post. It is so funny to hear what "out-of-staters" think of the Arizona summers. Maybe I have just become immune to it since I have lived here my whole life. :) Too bad you had to move here in the worst month possible. But, at least it will only get better, right? Welcome to AZ!