Lessons Learned in Las Vegas

So, we've lived here for almost 7 months. Just typing that out seems absolutely crazy. We just got here, how could it possibly have been seven months?! We've slowly been finding our way here and learning a thing or two along the way. I wrote {THIS} post about things we learned in SA, so I thought it was time I did another post for Las Vegas!

Las Vegas people are dog people. I've never seen anything like it. It's such a sharp contrast from what we experienced in San Antonio. In SA, the vast majority of our neighbors had dogs & all of these dogs were kept outside in fenced in yards 24/7. I kid you not--it would be freezing or thundering or a million degrees out, and those poor dogs were just sitting in their backyards. In the two years we lived in SA, I literally only saw one of our neighbors walk his dog. I could never understand why any of our other neighbors had dogs if all they did was leave them in their backyards?! We spent many a nights after first moving to SA lying awake b/c dogs were incessantly barking. That NEVER happens here!! Dogs are treated like royalty in Summerlin. The sidewalks & parks are covered every morning and evening with people out walking their dogs before the heat of the day. Before Las Vegas, I'd never seen dog strollers before...but that is totally a thing here!!! It is totally normal to see people shopping with their dog in tow in Target or the grocery store. We even saw a little doggie in Cold Stone the last time we had ice cream!

We miss humidity. I can't believe I just said that, but it's true!!! We always knew that Las Vegas was known for its "dry heat." We were very much looking forward to the lack of humidity in Vegas after living in Georgia, Biloxi, & San Antonio! And I'll admit, we really love the climate here!!! Without humidity, even the crazy hot days really aren't that bad at all! But our skin misses the humidity something fierce. We are buying Aquaphor in bulk now for crying out loud!!!

"In home preschools" are a big deal here. Before moving to Las Vegas, I'd never even heard of this! It seems so strange to us!

Las Vegas has a huge retiree population. There are sooooo many elderly people in Las Vegas. Before moving here, we never knew there was a huge population of people who move here for retirement. Every time I go out for the lunch with the girls to McDonald's or Panera, we always run into a different group of elderly men or ladies out for a monthly luncheon. It's so funny!

Believe it or not, but Las Vegas is family-friendly! Parks are AMAZING here! All of the parks in Summerlin are maintained really nicely, and they almost all have a security guard type person patrolling the parks during park hours. While Las Vegas may be known as Sin City, it is waaaaay more family-friendly than we ever could have hoped for!

Earthquakes! We experienced our first earthquake here!!! A couple of weeks ago, we had a little earthquake (2.8)in the middle of the night. It woke Derek up, and he immediately knew it was an earthquake. He said it caused me to stir a bit, but I have no recollection of it happening. ;)  So weird to think we live in a place that has earthquakes!

Las Vegas people are not bow people. I know I've mentioned this before at least once on the blog, but people do not do hair bows out here. ;)  Before moving here, we constantly had people commenting on the color of the girls' hair. But now we get comments on their bows more frequently than we do the color of their hair.