The Coolest Airplane Ever

Back in February, DAVE AND I WENT TO HAWAII.  Oh my goodness, it was the greatest thing I've ever done.  It was the first time in our 8.5 years of marriage that we've taken a trip, just the two of us.  Vacation is so awesome!  I hope we can take trips together more than once every 8.5 years moving forward!

As you can imagine, I have a billion pictures from our trip, so I'll be putting up multiple posts about the best time of my life lately.

Gotta start with the airplane.  Took pictures for Miles so he could see how awesome this airplane was.  The whole first 5 minutes I thought of him and how utterly delighted he would be.  It was a United "dream jet" or something.  It was seriously the coolest airplane ever.  I felt like any or all of the following at some point (or all at the same time) of the flight:

1. A kid

2. A first time flyer

3. A first time visitor to the U.S.

4. A visitor to the future

5. Someone who had lived in the sticks all their life and never seen or used modern amenities and then got on a crazy cool airplane and had their mind BLOWN.  So I guess I sort of felt Amish.

Check out the windows.  No shades?  No problem!  They TINT at the push of a button! 

Whaaaat?!?!  So cool!

All the seats had a touch screen tv-- movies and shows galore, free for the watching.  Dave and I watched The Internship-- separate, but together.

Dave, in awe and amazement.  You used the screen to control your light and a bunch of other stuff.  At one point we saw a guy reaching up and touching/pushing on his light trying to turn it off... that was funny.

We felt bad for the guy sitting next to us as we were touching everything and tinting the window, un-tinting the window, tinting the window medium, lighter, darker, lighter, darker, medium... WOW... take a picture!  

We felt even more bad, though, when we had to say goodbye to that airplane once we got to LA and had to get on the crappiest silver bullet you've ever seen.  We also had to change airlines, which means we had to walk all over LAX and outside (the weather was lovely and you could see the mountains!  Mountains look so much grander after you live in Texas.), go through security again and get to our gate with hardly enough time to buy an outrageously overpriced organic (said in a I'm-so-fancy-I'm-organic voice) muffin.

Then we flew to Hawaii!  I can't remember if I slept that flight... I'm pretty sure I did, and Dave got bumped by every bloody person who ever walked by to go to the bathroom or stretch their legs and had a pretty annoying flight on that crappy silver bullet.  Haha, fun times.

Random City

Get ready for a bunch of random stuff.

First up we have this super great picture of Miles just before we left to get Dave from work one day:

 Barring it's not cold, which is like 90% of the time, Miles strips down to his underwear first thing when he gets home from school.  I'm used to my underwear boy by now, of course, but it's slightly annoying because he has to get dressed again when we have to go pick up Dave.  When I told him to get dressed on this day, he came out in his t-ball Cubs jersey, no pants.  I figured it was long enough to cover his underwear so what the heck?  Look at those skinny legs!

Second-- New Year's Day NHL Outdoor Classic hockey game.  Miles was ever so respectfully and delightedly watching/listening to the National Anthem:

 He always stands right in front of the TV.

Third-- An electrifying trip to the zoo:

 I'm sure it was really fun-- not sure what his face was all about.

 Fourth-- t-ball and THE reason I opted not to buy his t-ball picture:

Here's a closer look:

 So great when you make the right choice, isn't it?

Feeling awesome after a great hit.

Fifth-- Pleasure Pier:

Pleasure Pier from DAM FAM on Vimeo.

That's all folks!

P.S.  I forgot to put a note in here about how SCARED Miles was to go on that roller coaster with Dave.  Dave more or less made him do it and he survived and we were proud of him for being brave.  But man, he was nervous about it!  That's all.

Macro

I'm always saving up my birthday and Christmas money/presents for a lens.  The only lenses I have on my wishlist: 70-200mm and a fisheye.  We picked up a 100mm Macro not too long ago and it's awesome!  I took it out one morning to see what she could do.

None of these bug pictures are anything spectacular, but you can definitely see the potential!

As a point of reference, these mini roses were no larger than a quarter.  I do apologize for so many pictures, I just think it's so awesome!

The picture on the left is the one I took, the picture on the right is zoomed in.  A-mazing.

Same here, left: picture I took.  Right: zoomed in.  A-mazing.

You know it-- same left and right thing.  Look at how you can see the water magnifying the leaf!  So rad.

I seriously couldn't even see those little water droplets floating in the spider web with my naked eye.

Fun times with my camera.