1/17/08
Post-posting syndrome
You may or may not have noticed that sometimes when we post things it will just be a long chain of photos and absolutely no text. This goes back to an internet problem (Jon has to run outside with his laptop to get service strong enough to upload the photos on the post) that leaves us posting pics with a hope of typing up something witty to go with them later. Unfortunately it's been quite a challenge to do that, but since we have no photos to post, we've finally been able to go back and fill in the blanks. So, in case you were interested, you could go back now and actually find out what the stories behind the pics are. We're just backwards, don't worry about it.
LOST: Casio Exilim 7.0 megapixel camera, dark gray metal finish, tucked rightfully in its candy-apple green case
Saddest news of the holidays...we unexplainably lost possession of our camera. On its one-year-birthday of becoming our brand new camera last Christmas. It makes no sense to us at all, it's just gone. At first we thought it would just show up later, but it's way later now, and it's a definite no show.
We're kind of picture-taking junkies (in case you can't tell), so we've been going through some serious withdrawals. It's weird how when you don't have a camera, you don't want to do anything cool because you have no means of documenting it. Or maybe that's just us. Who knows who we're documenting it for, but we like it documented nonetheless. Anyway, so this is our disclaimer, letting the blog world know we haven't been participating as of late because we haven't had a camera. And who wants to read text-only blogs? I apologize in advance for having to read ours until we get a new moment-freezer machine.
In the meantime, we're learning to go out and have fun without having a photo shoot at the same time. It's good for us, because then we can just focus on each other and enjoying whatever we're doing. My favorite example of this was the day after Christmas. We wanted to see the Downtown decorations before they were taken down, so, on Day 2 of being camera-less, we took the plunge. It was awesome, and we could not get enough of how rad they had set up the trains outside the Botanical Garden. The leaf/organic material monuments inside were awesome too. We were so impressed. We checked out the National Tree, looked for the Utah state tree, enjoyed the heat from the MASSIVE yule logs that some professional yule log burner man was burning up in a pit, and swung past the Capitol lawn tree as well.
After that we were just slowly walking the streets of DC in a light rain, and loving how quiet the streets were, and we totally stumbled onto this awesome ice skating rink that was HUGE! It was built right on top of the huge fountain in the Sculpture Garden, and it was totally empty that night. The rain had stopped, I'd never been ice skating before, and in a moment of spontaneity, we forked out the money and jumped onto the rink. The city was so quiet, and we were totally alone on this huge rink playing old music, surrounded by awesome DC buildings and a pinkish-whitish night sky. I got to see Jon sport some sweet ice skating moves, and I didn't even fall once. That was big. It was like this weird, perfect, winter wonderland night. I wish we could have had 100 pictures of that night, but I don't think they would have portrayed how perfect it was anyway. We watched other families come and go taking tons of pictures, and we could just forget all about that and kind of get lost in the moment.
This is the lamest, longest post ever, and it doesn't do any of the things I'm talking about justice. See, I told you we need a camera. :)
We're kind of picture-taking junkies (in case you can't tell), so we've been going through some serious withdrawals. It's weird how when you don't have a camera, you don't want to do anything cool because you have no means of documenting it. Or maybe that's just us. Who knows who we're documenting it for, but we like it documented nonetheless. Anyway, so this is our disclaimer, letting the blog world know we haven't been participating as of late because we haven't had a camera. And who wants to read text-only blogs? I apologize in advance for having to read ours until we get a new moment-freezer machine.
In the meantime, we're learning to go out and have fun without having a photo shoot at the same time. It's good for us, because then we can just focus on each other and enjoying whatever we're doing. My favorite example of this was the day after Christmas. We wanted to see the Downtown decorations before they were taken down, so, on Day 2 of being camera-less, we took the plunge. It was awesome, and we could not get enough of how rad they had set up the trains outside the Botanical Garden. The leaf/organic material monuments inside were awesome too. We were so impressed. We checked out the National Tree, looked for the Utah state tree, enjoyed the heat from the MASSIVE yule logs that some professional yule log burner man was burning up in a pit, and swung past the Capitol lawn tree as well.
After that we were just slowly walking the streets of DC in a light rain, and loving how quiet the streets were, and we totally stumbled onto this awesome ice skating rink that was HUGE! It was built right on top of the huge fountain in the Sculpture Garden, and it was totally empty that night. The rain had stopped, I'd never been ice skating before, and in a moment of spontaneity, we forked out the money and jumped onto the rink. The city was so quiet, and we were totally alone on this huge rink playing old music, surrounded by awesome DC buildings and a pinkish-whitish night sky. I got to see Jon sport some sweet ice skating moves, and I didn't even fall once. That was big. It was like this weird, perfect, winter wonderland night. I wish we could have had 100 pictures of that night, but I don't think they would have portrayed how perfect it was anyway. We watched other families come and go taking tons of pictures, and we could just forget all about that and kind of get lost in the moment.
This is the lamest, longest post ever, and it doesn't do any of the things I'm talking about justice. See, I told you we need a camera. :)
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