The camera came home

Well we finally bought Nikki's digi cam. She could no longer contain her excitement and played the cute beg card so we drove to 3 stores looking for the cam. Turns out the model she wanted is no longer in stock so we had to buy the next model up, which is a tad more expensive but not by much. She also got a 512mb mem card and a nice camera case. Didn't cameras used to come with camera cases?!
So the reason i'm posting and not her is she too busy taking pictures of anything and everything lol.
Good job nikki saving all that lunch money!! :)

Happy Easter

Happy Eaaasssttterrr!

We had a nice Easter weekend! On Friday my mom came over and we dyed eggs and had supper which I made - low fat lasagna (yes there is such a thing!) Then on Saturday we went to do one of a few work meetings for our Revolutionary Re-enacting thing. We basically spent the whole day making cartridges (or blanks) for the muskets. We used 25 pounds of black powder and probably made over 200 cartridges, not bad for a days work.

Finally on Sunday we went over to Ron's parents house for Easter Dinner, I had lamb and enjoyed it very much. Also they had white wine, I think I was the only one who had any, and I had about 4.5 glasses (Nikki the lush). I truly enjoyed it though. Rose made a fabulous pea and ricotta-salada cheese salad. It was very tasty. Happy Easter it was a good weekend.

By the way, I'm up to 90 in my camera fund. Woot. Camera for me on Friday!!

Digital Camera

Woot...I'm up to a whopping $80 :D

Digital Camera Update

Hmm let's see since today is Monday - I'm up to $70 in my camera fund woot!

Weekend Update

This weekend, Ron and I went to Washington Crossing State park on Saturday. It was really fun and we had a great time. We went to the NJ and PA sides of the park. They both have their own strengths, NJ has alot of activities and excited people walking around, their space is full and well stocked with informational pamphlets. 20 minute movies on Washington's Crossing and a general friendly atmosphere. The PA side has an awesome facility, its just huge and beautiful, but its better for a walk than for learning at this point because they are revamping their facilities. There are very few exhibits but a pretty awesome gift shop. I purchased a penny whistle and promptly wrote a song called "Ode to Spring" I think I will record it and put it up on this site. Also we bought some wooden spoons which we will use for reenacting.

Then on Sunday we went to a bread making lecture in East Jersey Olde Towne. Very interesting. It was led by a rather dynamic woman called Jane Chrysostom. She was very knowledgeable about the topic, but really it just highlighted how removed we as New Jerseyians are from our food sources, most of us in the room (age range 9 - 89) did not know the process of turning wheat into flour. Nor did we know that there are various kinds of wheat or that you have to remove the stalk and the beard and the chaff! Holy smokes what a process. After that we had a yummy soup and sandwich dinner with my mom and Mrs. LaFontaine. It was a good weekend.

I would love to attend another lecture by Jane. She does a cheese making that I may be interested in attending!

Also, my mom lent me her digital camera so I can see what i'm looking for in my own digi-cam. I may post some pictures soon.

Digital Camera

Thursday - $5.00
Friday - $5.00

Total - $65

Woot!

I think I am getting a Kodak Easy Share

Road Trip Update #2

Well, we have pretty much finalized our first day.

We will leave pretty early and pick up our rental car on Saturday (we may wind up picking it up on Friday night, we'll see.) Anyhoo, we have the car and we drive it up to Mystic Seaport in CT, where we have lunch and enjoy the sights and sounds of this famous port. Then we continue up to Littleton, MA which is about 30 miles west of Boston, this is where we camp for the first night. We're staying at Minute Man Camp Ground We'll be cooking over a camp fire woot! We're going to practice setting up our camp in our living room so we can do it smoothly. We don't want the other campers to laugh at us.

Digital Camera Update - $55.00 (before lunch, which I brought from home again)

I'm getting a real camera!

Finally my mean husband is letting me have a camera. I have been begging for digi-cam for EVER, and by forever I mean over a year. So at long last Ron is relenting and I can have the camera. But of course there is a catch....

For every lunch that I bring from home I pay myself $5 (because I would have spent that on lunch somewhere) when I save up enough for a camera I can buy it. I start out with a $50 credit because I always bring my lunch several days a week! So counting today (lunch from home) I have $55 towards my camera fund. Hurray! Once I have that, I will begin posting pictures. :)

Well I got the camera...and some new news!

Well, I finally got the camera that I ordered and it was awful! Completely cheap and dumb. No digital display or anything. That'll teach me to stop messing around impatiently on ebay. So that puppy is going back up on ebay and hopefully some other sap... er..I mean customer will buy it from me :D

Now the new news.... Ron and I are taking a road trip! Woot. We are going from New Jersey to Quebec and back again. All by car with plenty of stops and camping along the way. I am excited because that means that I can plan a trip and we can finally go camping.