Spring in the East

Ahhh, Spring has officially arrived on the east coast. The cherry blossoms are everywhere and are beautiful!!

Last weekend, we headed up to Washington D.C. to play tourist. We parked our car at the closest Metro station and jumped on the train... 'Bullet train, bullet train, yeah' (parents of young children: name it)... and headed to The Mall.

We did all of the touristy things... we went to the monuments, The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum (one museum was one too many with the girls), had street vendor hot dogs for lunch and looked at the thousands of beautiful blossoms.

We also enjoyed the many, many kites that were flying.

Turns out that last Saturday was the first day of the Cherry Blossom Festival, complete with a kite flying competition. Had we have known, we would have never gone... the amount of people on The Mall was insane. We are so glad that we went though. One more adventure under our belts.

These cool pictures were edited with Photoshop, which is one of my new favorite things. I can't wait to see what more I can do with it... stay tuned!

Fun With Photoshop

This is one of my favorite pictures.


I thought it might be fun to play around with it. This is the result.


I love it even more.

I'm in Love!!!!

Yes, with this man, but that's not what I'm talking about. Just look at what he is holding.

I think I might have mentioned that I obsess. Anyway, we have been wanting to get a new camera for quite a while. I can't even tell you how long 'a while' has been. We have looked at countless websites and read several thousand reviews and finally decided that we needed to take the plunge and upgrade. We purchased the Nikon D80 digital SLR with the 18-200 mm VR lens from a sort of shady internet source (that's a story for a different day) and we couldn't be happier.


Do you see the size of this lens? It's marketed as a 'compact' lens.
Let's take a look at what this baby can do.


Here is our cat Buddy with our Sony 5.1 MP camera. Not too shabby.


This is buddy with this fabulous work of engineering. Good Lord! This is what I have been missing out on.


The other fun thing that we purchased was Adobe Photoshop. Look what I did with the first 5.1MP picture.


I did the same thing with Nikon picture.

Our picture taking has reached a whole new level.