Beware of broken glass.

Adequately following our post about all of the charms that Fresno has to offer, we bring you crappy and irritating news.

Our "Happy Valentines Day" began when Hannah discovered that her poor car had been broken in to. Following a fun filled night out with friends (which is now overshadowed by the tragedy of Silvia the silver sable's domestic abuse case), Hannah was getting ready to return home when she found the massacre of shattered glass. Odd as well because her car was parked in a really nice neighborhood! Now our thief/thieves aren't very smart for one, there were a lot nicer and newer cars parked on the street in the neighborhood, why Hannah's boring mom car was targeted is a mystery...also the only thing they took was the little green iPod Hannah got for Christmas 2 holidays ago. It wasn't even the latest and greatest model either (it was a generation 3, which we think came out in '07!). Our idiotic thief/thieves left the stereo and left the GPS as well. Dumb asses. You think if you are going to go through all the trouble of breaking in, you'll at least go for the big guns. So, we guess if they wanted a iPod that bad, so be it (it's probably only worth 50 bucks now anyways) Unfortunately, since Hannah was at her friend's place when the travesty was uncovered, we didn't get any good pictures before we cleaned the mess up enough to be able to drive home. Nick snapped a few photos when I got home, but it doesn't do it justice because we had already pulled out the remaining shards of glass hanging from the window frame. Everything could have been worse, so here's to keeping that glass half full!

It just kinda looks the the windows rolled down now!

In other life's going on news.....
Geo is one class away from graduating his intermediate training class! Keep your fingers crossed that he actually graduates (he's not exactly been an A student this time around!)

We have successfully installed baby latches on our cabinets since the damn cat has gotten very thrifty and started off our broken glass week by shoving the honey jars out of the cabinets and onto the floors. Yea for sticky shattered glass! Maybe Echo was trying to foreshadow our other broken glass incident...

For those of you who haven't heard, for shits and giggles, Hannah had signed up to take a belly dancing class! She's about half way though the course now and is having a lot of fun (but can't imagine why any women would want to stay in a room covered in mirrors for too long while attempting to wiggle your belly around)

Nick hates Calculus, but only has a few weeks left so keep your fingers crossed for him! He managed to switch his Wednesday night class to Tuesdays as well so he only has to go down to Bakersfield 3 days a week and only needs to spend the night once. Saves money for sure. We still don't get to see one another a lot (especially since Hannah picked up a lot of call this month not knowing how our previous car dilemma was going to play out) but it is what it is!

We are excited to announce that we found something here that reminds us of home! ta-dah! VERNORS! Woooooot!


Well, we hope your Valentine's Day panned out better for you than it did us! Take care and talk to you all soon!

Fresno - Something to be proud of!

Men's Health just rated Fresno "America's Drunkest City." Not too far behind is the number #10 drunkest city, Bakersfield, CA (where Nick goes to school at!)

That almost makes us as proud to live here as our current title of "Dumbest City in America" from theDailyBeast.com.

Fresno has 27 different gangs totaling over 8000 members (over half of those belonging to the Bulldog gang - which confusingly shares the same name and symbol as the local college mascot, so you never know if you're looking at a really enthusiastic alumni, or a gang member (probably the latter, you know for sure if they start barking.)) This data means that 1 out of every 100 people you meet might want to shoot you.

The local news has an "Arrest of the Day" segment. Really.

We've learned exactly where to go to hire a hitman - the exact street! (aren't you glad we didn't get you one of those for Christmas!)

According to FBI data, on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the worst), the violent crime rate in Fresno ranks 7, in our city of Clovis, CA it's a 5 In Grandville, MI it's a 3, in Hudsonville, MI, it's 1. Average for the US is 3.

Unemployment in Fresno is 16.8% Not too far ahead of everyone's favorite Michigan unemployment capital of Flint (at 16.6%). Grand Rapids has 11.3%

C'mon let's heed our new motto and "Be world Class, Fresno!"

HAHAHAHA.
*Are we thrilled to be living here? No. It's definitely not the California everyone likes to picture in their heads (although we do have a lot of skinny, bleach blonde babes to go around).
*Do we see ourselves here much longer? No.
*Do we regret moving out here? Not at all. It's been a great experience so far and it has definitely been eye opening as opposed to the charmed bubble life that West Michigan tends to lean towards. Plus, even if Fresno stinks, we're close to too many awesome things to be too mad about it (Hawaii anyone?) We're having fun and we know we'll look back on this chapter our our lives one day and we'll just laugh!

Happy February everyone! We miss you!