Country, meet City.

We just returned from a lovely vacation to our beloved home-lands of Utah & Idaho.

We currently call California our home-land, which we love too.

There are just a few, minor differences between Utah/Idaho & California.

Here you have it:

U/I: people play with toy guns & even haul REAL guns around in their trucks

Cali: dare I say the 3-letter word near another human, I will soon be under investigation

U/I: we heard & saw freight trains all throughout the day

Cali: we hear & see sirens all throughout the day

U/I: we went swimming & I was NOT the whitest lady in the pool

Cali: we went swimming a couple weeks ago & I WAS the whitest lady in the pool

U/I: I saw about 15 gals, my age or younger, walking their children in strollers within a 15-minute span

Cali: I see 15 different folks walking their dogs within a 15-minute span

U/I: our nephew ran around in a hat that read "NRA"

Cali: you better hope you have a bodyguard if you say those 3 letters in that order

U/I: I took Avy to the playground at a baseball game. NONE of the other children had parents nearby. At all.

Cali: CPS will likely be alerted if you are more than 20 feet from your child.

U/I: Tyler went fishing, fixed sprinklers, worked on tractors, golfed, rode 4-wheelers...

Cali: the only outdoor hobby he can muster around here involves climbing our brick wall in the backyard,

scaling the massive tree behind the brick wall,

& sawing down some tree branches.

Oh, let's not forget the branches got caught in telephone/electric wires and he had to shake them to get the branches to fall.

That's totally safe.....right?