Saying good bye to Cincinnati, OH

I am and will always be a Cincinnati native at heart, and Cincinnati will always be a second home to me. This was the place that I was born and raised. I have lived here, up to this point, 95% of my life. I will always support my home teams, even when I adopted new ones. No one will ever convince me otherwise to that fact that the downtown Cincinnati skyline is not the most amazing thing to see when you are crossing into Ohio from Kentucky. Jungle Jims will hold special memories for me, and it is one place that I will miss shopping at. There is no place on earth like Jungle Jims. There will be certain foods that I will miss, that you can't get anywhere else. Those food places are: Montgomery Inn, Skyline and Gold Star, Larosas' Pizza, and Graters Ice Cream. In deciding to move not only am I leaving these things behind, but my friends and family as well.

Deciding to move across the country was difficult but in some ways easy. I had never pictured myself staying in Ohio my whole entire life. I knew the world had more to offer me then just Ohio. So, because I had been dreaming about this my whole life, that is what made it easy for me. What made it hard was leaving my family behind. My parents, my sisters, my nieces and nephews all live in Cincinnati. Matter of fact, they all lived within twenty minutes of us. Now I live in a place that is twenty-four hours away. It's not like I can hop in the car and drive right over whenever I want to see them, instead now we must plan the trips and time them right. I do miss my family, but I am happy to be where I am today. To be honest, as much as it may hurt my family that I have moved out to Logan, UT, I would still do it all over in a heart beat!

So as I close one chapter in my book, I open a new one. Vincent and I have started our life over, or our life is just beginning. Either way we both miss our family in Ohio, we were both sad to leave, but we are glad that we have followed the guidance of the Lord and have found our paradise.

Good bye Cincinnati, you have truly been good to me.