... and this particular day was no exception. This particular day down at the park I had a fiddle with the settings on my camera and noticed that the colours went from this...
to this...
Subtle but better none-the-less. Amazing! Who'da thunk? Thems camera maker men are so smart! First gobsmacker of the day!
I also learnt that the trendy way to swing is on your belly and not your butt as the rest of the world would have it.
You can reach great heights and perform various manoevres when you break the 'Swing' rules.
And when you reach these great heights you are bound to run into an old friend...
Apparently, you can die on a swing as well...
...and it's contagious...
This learning thing is FUN!
My third lesson of the day is that if I had a choice whether or not to take a carload of GIRLS or a carload of BOYS to the park and I opted to take the carload of GIRLS, I was the lucky one...
Girls play NICE!!!
Have you ever noticed that there are some things that are embedded deep within your memory that will probably NEVER go away? Insignificant at the time but apparently 3 decades later the memory will come bubbling to the surface like a bath after baked beans...
Here lurketh Lesson Four... And then along strolled Mr Smith...
He is aptly named Mr Smith because of his gait. Check it...
Meet my reincarnated Science teacher from Third Form (Grade 8). Skinny dude with a long hooked nose who walked like an Ibis. He also sounded like those guys on "Dude! Where's My Car?" Actually, I'm pretty convinced that when he drove that old Humber 80 in the staff car park he secretly worshipped Cheech and Chong. Because it had the pom pom fringing around the windscreen. And when he got out of the car it was almost like he would unfold like a transformer with a huge puff of smoke. He was pretty long was Mr Smith... Don't recall him ever wearing feathers though...
But isn't it weird how small things like an Ibis will remind you of your old Science teacher?
And this here looks like that hunk o' burnin' love I met nigh on 22 years ago...
'cept without the technology stuck to his ear... and without the Photoshopped-ness.
I thought Brad looked totally smooth and dreamy in that photo!
I love the swing photos. Very cute. I wish I were as limber as girlfriend is in her "dead" photo. Sigh! To be young again.
Posted by: donnapiranha | 02 October 2008 at 12:07 AM
Whoa, your hubby is HOT!
Posted by: Pam | 02 October 2008 at 09:46 AM
I'm ROFLing at the dead girl on the swing! I have one here that does the same thing. :)
Posted by: Ann Lederhose | 02 October 2008 at 10:19 AM
your hubby's hot! (ah, is that appropriate?) well, apparently i'm not the only one with that opinion, so i guess it's ok! which bits are photoshopped btw? (just wonderin'...)
Posted by: scrappysue | 02 October 2008 at 11:33 AM
Oh boy... is he EVER going to LOVE you girls! I'll have to send him this link so he can bask in the post-photoshop glory.
Sue, his skin, eyes... actually, his whole HEAD!!! haaa!
Posted by: Lynette van Barrelo | 02 October 2008 at 12:52 PM
Loved the photos of our babies! I laughed out loud when I saw them and read your words especially the 'dead' ones haaa!
Posted by: Bev | 02 October 2008 at 08:18 PM
Hilarious photos missy. What setting did you discover? Great catching up on the weekend, still chortling about your 'plumber' story. Send me a link sometime :-)
Posted by: Moira Coates | 02 October 2008 at 09:34 PM
Well Kiwi, whatever the settings are I think you are learning your new camera. They ALL look fabulous. Even if you had to play in photoshop for the Brad man. Ha! You must be busy doing all that last minute stuff before you fly on over to Canada and the USA. Bravo for taking time off to play in the park with the kids.
Posted by: Janette | 03 October 2008 at 03:03 AM
Um..well..er...thats not the weather beaten Husband I know of yours...er...but I was just wondering if you can photoshop me, cause, it sure does wonders! (Sorry Brad...no strokin your ego from me lovey!...)However, he does have a super hot wife!...who I just happen to be eloping with in about a week! wheeee....
Posted by: Sherryn | 03 October 2008 at 11:39 AM
LOL at Sherryn! I love the photoshopped twinkle in his eyes. ;)
Cute swing photos, I see future layouts with them, but not until you return from the land of the free.
Posted by: Kristi Smith | 05 October 2008 at 02:10 AM
I also loved the "dead girl on a swing" photo. Too funny. That is exactly the kind of thing I used to do on a swing. Now, I would injure myself for sure!
It's the eyes. That's what makes him hot! The eyes...
And your layouts are always, always to die for. I always intend to comment but don't. So, I apologize for that. I will stop stalking and start commenting.
Posted by: Debbie | 09 October 2008 at 08:55 PM