"Party in the city where the heat is on
All night on the beach till the break of dawn
Welcome to MISSOULA
Buenvenidos a MISSOULA
Bouncin in the club where the heat is on
All night on the beach till the break of dawn
Im goin to MISSOULA
Welcome to MISSOULA"
Okay Missoula is not exactly Miami, but I know Will Smith was REALLY singing about Missoula. If many of you have not heard of Missoula, Montana, it is a small Liberal town on the western side of Montana, about 7.5 hours north of Salt Lake City, 7 hours east of Seattle and 3 hours south of Glacier National Park. Missoula is a town of probably 50,000 people, with another 50,000 people in the surrounding area. Missoula is home to the University of Montana, the Montana Grizzlies. The Grizzlies are Division IAA Football Championship Subdivision, or whatever they call basically Division II football anymore. They are in the Big Sky conference, the same Conference as Weber State University from Ogden Utah. The Grizzlies are always contenders for the Division II national title. They are a very good football team and the whole town backs them (I love that). The basketball team is pretty good as well. Anyway, I am driving Sadie to Missoula tomorrow (Saturday August 22nd, 2009) so she can get ready to start Pharmacy school at the U of M. I will be joining Sadie as soon as I find employment, or we feel it is just time for me to take the leap and go up there (I need to save more!). Sadie and I really dig Missoula, it is a hip little college town with Coffee shops, bars and corky little shops on every corner. The other thing we are happy about is not having to drive to get everywhere, everything is VERY close, but if we dont mind driving we can go to stores that we have back home (Target, Costco, Best Buy, etc). Really what we have learned in our time visiting Missoula is it has everything Salt Lake and other cities has, but less of them. We can still go to bars, movies, malls, concerts (they get popular acts there), art shows, etc. We basically can live our normal lives. We have gone to IKEA and purchased all the furniture we need, loaded up my sisters work van with my scooter, bed, vacuum and all the big stuff (Thanks Sunset Coffee) and we are ready to go. Sadie and I both have Web Cameras so we can "Visit" with each other every night or so, and I plan on making the 7.5 hour journey up there every other weekend until I move up there permanently, so if you are interested in checking out Missoula, please feel free to join me every other weeked, I could use the company for the drive. We are both very excited and ready for this new adventure in life.
"You don't regret what you did, you regret what you didn't do".
