We should all move to Laramie

Here's why:

1. The house of my dreams only costs $400,000 and it is SO adorable (from the outside at least).

2. Tommy is still talking about the Laramie Rec Center which has water slides (fun ones!), fountains and one of those river rides -- and that's just the indoor pool! We went on Friday and Saturday (we were a bit later leaving for the airport than we should have been because of our swim) and yesterday Tommy suggested we head over for a swim but of course yesterday we were in London.

3. You can drive anywhere in town in ten minutes, maybe even five. There is no traffic.

4. There's a dinosaur museum there (and there should be; it's amazing how many of the dinosaurs in the Natural History Museum are from the western United States).

5. We ate out plenty, and every restaurant was good. Also, there's a co-op with a very cool lettuce and basil dispenser -- it grows in the store, out of the wall (which must have soil, etc., in it) and you cut off whatever you want with scissors. Can you say fresh?

6. Regular exercise at 7,000 feet is better for you than regular exercise at sea level. I know because it's so much harder.

7. The mountains are so beautiful, and so close! And also, they aren't as crowded as the mountains near Seattle.

8.  Trains!! (But only once every 20 minutes.)

8. Two of the four best grandparents in the whole wide world live there.