Fourth of July

Last year we lost the fourth of July. What do I mean by lost? We literally lost it. We left LA July 3rd, crossed the international date line, and arrived in Fiji on July 5th. The international date line happens to cross over Taveuni, a northeast island in Fiji that we visited at the end of our trip. The line only crosses land in 4 places on Earth so on Taveuni you can have one foot in yesterday and one foot in today. To reduce confusion though eastern Taveuni and the islands east of it are treated as if they were on the other side of the date line.

At the first resort we stayed at we were talking about out trip here and how we lost the 4th of July and a young British girl asked us, “But what’s the significance of the 4th of July?”

“Um, it was the day we declared our independence from your country…” I carefuly explained.

“Oh, oh yeah.”

Then we had a good laugh and explained exactly how American’s celebrate the 4th of July because she had no idea.

The British girl we met.

I’m Back!

OK, I’m going to start updating this blog again but I’m going to turn it into my personal/art blog. I’m write about more than Blurb books because I haven’t made any since my honeymoon album. I still have a few album post I want to write and I will be making more albums in the future but I want to write more than that here. I want to post about photos I’ve altered in Photoshop and how I did it, paintings I’ve done, my quest to be a better photographer, personal experiences, and things that inspire me. This a place to collect my right brain thoughts and challenge myself to be more creative.

While I was gone my husband and I bought our first house! It’s a 1973 fixer upper that we are going to renovate ourselves. It sits on 3 acres of land with a pond, forest, and prairie. We plan to spend the majority of our lives and raise a family in this house because with all it’s flaws it’s still our dream house. You can read about our adventures on our new house blog:

3 acres and 3000 square feet

Hope you stick around!