I wonder why I’ve been blogging more lately, and have had some time to edit photos? Maybe it’s because we’ve been home for a while without travelling. It’s been nice, a little break before the next vacation.
So, here are the first photos from Amsterdam, our first day there. I find it easier to break the photo review and editing into chunks by day, because it gives me a smaller end goal, however arbitrary it may seem.
In the last day Brandon has started making airplanes. Not the usual little paper airplanes, but large onese with sticks and paper and tape and some lego ladders. This one has already survived multiple “flights” off of the balcony onto the grass below.
Pre-flight check.
Launch.
Recovery.
It used to be, that I always had my hair back in a barrette or a pony tail. I hated the feel of my hair on my face. Then, a few years ago I got it cut short and finally found a fantastic stylist (Hey, Karla!) and was able to keep a short style I like that didn’t involve any sort of hair equipment. You know what I mean, barrettes, hair bands, etc.
But here I am now in Italy. With no hairstylist and not enough vocabulary to really describe what I want. I haven’t had a haircut since March 30, except for me trimming a few bangs. So with the longer hair comes the desire to pull my hair back again, right now with a barrette and eventually into a pony tail. So, the barrettes are back for the moment. Until I decide otherwise. Thought you all needed to know.
I got this tea-for-one pot in Amsterdam on our recent trip. I played around with it in the evening kitchen light, looking at it from different angles depth of field. Just a reminder that there are many different angles, infinite even, to look at a single object. If that is true, shouldn’t it be the same for our lives and our problems? 
We had no plans for today. Well, at least Brandon and I didn’t. And we had a nice, long day of randomness…
I cleaned up my desk and painting area. I put some pictures into frames and rearranged the shelves in the living room. Went for a bike ride in Parco di Monza. Went over to the neighborhood store for some light and cool food items. Cleaned up and consoled Brandon over a broken plate and lost pancakes. Bought some domain names. Charged my camera batteries. Reformatted a hard disk. Learned to play Poptropica from Brandon. Talked with Patrick for a while about life. Made a CD to listen to in the car. Played Mario Cart with Brandon. Read a book.
All the while, enjoying the fact that there was nowhere we needed to be, no timetable, no trips. A nice little break after the travel of two weeks ago and the work craziness of last week.
