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A picnic

There was relatively nice weather today — sunny, not a cloud in sight, and the smoke from all the California wildfires was kept at bay by the breeze (or so the guy on the radio said). The company that my dad works for, Mozes decided to hold a picnic to celebrate the launch of their new project, Mozes Connect. It’s pretty cool, but that’s another blog, for another day.

My dad came back home at around 2 PM to pick me up to take me to the picnic. We were greeted with a wide open green field, lots of food, and a huge inflatable jumping house. Oh, and you can’t forget the mass of little teeny weeny babies that my dad’s coworkers brought along with them. Needless to say, I felt old amongst them; less energetic and less happy.

Basically, for the whole picnic, I stood around, shaking hands with people (my hand is tired), and taking pictures with my new Sony Cybershot. It was relaxing and interesting at the same time because I got to sit around, read books, and fiddle with the different settings in my camera.

There were a bunch of Super Soakers that people brought for the kids to play with, and one of my dad’s coworker’s son picked up a Super Soaker and aimed it at me. He stayed still long enough for me to take the picture and then he shot me with it.

At the end, the caterers brought out a huge cake with ‘Congratulations Mozes Connect’ frosted onto it, and the cake was so big, I’m pretty sure that by the end of the picnic, it still wasn’t finished.

My new Sony Cybershot

The last camera that my family bought was a Canon PowerShot S410 with 4 megapixels and the latest one is my new… Sony Cybershot DSC-T300 in black, with 10.1 megapixels, equipped with a 3.5″ touch screen, and all these other features I’ll probably never use like the paint program that it has. I decided to ask for a Sony CyberShot for my birthday after my friend recommended it to me, and after reading up about it. Also, the photos that people on Flickr posted were pretty darn convincing as well — I can’t wait to take pictures with it!

This new camera is almost three times thinner than my old Canon, and it was a lot more expensive, coming with a hefty price tag of $399.99. Was it worth it? I don’t know yet since the battery is still charging. Also, I still have to buy a Memory Stick Duo for it since I’m heading down to San Diego for a few days, and I doubt that there’s enough internal memory for all the pictures that I’m going to take. I also need to buy a case for it, since it’s pretty well known that I’m a klutz and I’ll probably drop it if it’s not in a case (it’s really slippery… to me).

My family and I headed to Circuit City to check out the camera, and when my dad saw the price tag, his eyes literally bugged out. He started mumbling long strings of gibberish that sounded strangely like Chinese and then turned to my mom with wary eyes. That was my queue to use my ever powerful pout. I also helped convince them by saying that, “The camera is not only for me! It’s for the family as well! We’ve had the old Canon for almost six years and it’s time for an upgrade! … Did I mention that it has a touchscreen?” After I said the word “touchscreen,” my dad looked up and started examining the camera. My dad and brother are both suckers for high-end technology and I suppose a touchscreen would kind of fall into that category.

So now, two days before my birthday, I’m $100 poorer than I was before. I was going to pay for half of the camera, but my dad said that since it was my birthday, I only had to pay 1/4 of it. Did I mention that it had a touchscreen?

What should I name my new camera?

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