Do you ever wonder?

I realized that most of the people who read my blog have no idea what it looks like where we live. Unfortunately, most of you won't ever come visit us either (but you're all welcome!)!

We live in Chino Hills, California. We're about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, about 75 miles west of Palm Springs, about 115 miles north of San Diego, and about 400ish miles south of San Francisco. We're about 30 minutes from either the mountains or the beach. In 2007, Chino Hills was ranked as the 13th safest city in the United States and Money Magazine ranked it on their top 100 best places to live. According to our city website, it also boasts the 6th highest median income in the United States (that explains all the BMWs and Lexus at Costco). Chino Hills has a population of about 78,000 people and was only incorporated in 1991. It is 49% Caucasian, 28% Asian, and about 18% Latino.

We live on one of the hills in Chino Hills, and this is the view from our neighborhood:



This is what the hill immediately behind our house looks like:


Here we are on the way down to our community pool.


This is what it looks like when you drive down the hill from our house (straight across that intersection is Costco!)


This is our church - St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church.

It is the largest parish in the Diocese of San Bernardino. Here's a picture of us with my confirmation class when I converted to Catholicism on the day we were confirmed by the Bishop and another random picture of me at our church.




This is what Ramy looked like at the beach a few years ago when we actually went to the beach:


This is what the beach where we got engaged looks like:
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