great first week here:

- our little casita is wonderful. it's in the historic armory park neighborhood. it's been fun to be living in downtown tucson amongst all the hustle and bustle. our landlady is a professional indie rock/folk singer-songwriter. she's french. dad has been trying his francais without much luck.

- the desert is very green this year. they've had a bunch of rain so once the desert bloom it should be amazing, there's a ton of snow in the mountains too.

- we've been having a blast exploring downtown...joel d valdez and santa rosa libraries, st. augustine's cathedral, presidio park, tucson children's museum, armory park, 17th st. market.

- went to the zoo on a free day (dad's favorite word) which was awesome...jamo's fav: polar bear, carter's: giraffe, dad's: tiger eating the whole cow leg

- 5 parks so far: ironhorse, santa rosa, himmel, reid and macdonald