Learning to Love North Dakota

7 months into my North Dakota life and its feeling more and more like a relationship. I wonder if those who move alot find that they develop feelings towards a place as if its someone they are developing a relationship with, I do.

When I arrived I was enchanted with the possibilites, the open space, and the rementants of summer. The enchantment turned to realism, the realism turned to envisioning our future and now I am seeing those parts I adore in stark contrast with those I really hate. As with most relationships its now a point when I have the choice, do those parts I hate have the power to end this or do the parts I love outweigh and triumph. I am not sure I know the answer. My glass half full self wants to share those parts I just love.

1. Auctions - There are an abundance of these year round, selling everything from Applebes's decorations, to homes to cattle
2. Elderly couples who go on dates at the bowling ally bar, he helps her with her coat and holds out her chair
3. The never ending activity at every place in town, any place any time its happening
4. The hoopla over a new restaurant, we just got a pita pit and people cant control their excitement
5. The decorative gardening in the summers
6. A fantastic public library
7. The Brew (even if 1/2 the people there somehow burn the coffee)
8. Free games of bowling on the back of your grocery receipts ( I currently have 5 in my purse) 
9. The sky that goes on forever, you can see celestial events from our apartment window
10. The Italian restaurant in the hallway of the shopping center
11. We have a university that's in town, and all of town in less than 10 miles away
12. Theodore Roosevelt National Park
13. The Jefferson Hour on Prairie Public

To do in Dickinson ND

Medora Musical

1. Go to dairy barn and have a peanut butter cookie ice cream sandwich
2. Go to Bogeys Diner and have lunch
3. Bid and possibly buy at an auction like the ones held by Mid West Auctions http://www.midwestauctions.com
4. See the Medora Musical
5. Have a drink at the historic Medora Hotel
6. Spend as much time as possible in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Medora Musical 

7. See the Farmers Market on Tuesdays and Saturdays 10am
8. Walk around the Patterson lake recreation area
9. Taste crab apples at the NDSU research extension park http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/dickinso/
10. See something with the Sneak Pique Productions team http://sneakpiqueproductions.com
11. Walk around young park
12. Catch a movie at the Carmike 3 theater
13. Dine at Sanfords
14. Coffee at the brew

15. Go to McDonalds early in the morning and observe the retiree breakfest groups

16. Shop Arc Aid

17. Admirer the intricate garden work in the developed neighborhoods

18. Recycle at the city Recycle lots
19. Spend some time at the library
20. Visit the dinosaur museum
21. Chateau De Mores Sate Historic Site, Medora
22. Thursday night Jazz at the Brick House Grill