Stingrays ...

Wow, this picture was small enough, too. This is probably the best one I have, anyway, after I cropped out my thumb from the top half of the frame. This is from when we went to Stingray City in Grand Cayman. It's basically a little sandbar in the middle of the ocean. You take your boat out there, get off the boat and you're standing in only about 3 feet of water. And then hundreds of stingrays come up expecting you to feed them. And despite your best efforts to stay the hell away from them, you can't avoid them because there's too many.

It was definitely a unique experience – though it might have been better appreciated by someone who actually likes aquatic animals, or any kind of animals.

Getting my July post in at the last minute ...

Well, it's been quite a long while, as I am quite a lazy blogger. My trip to the Grand Caymans was great, albeit extremely hot - though not quite as hot as it is outside right now. That's why I'm sitting in my air-conditioned apartment updating my blog.

Unfortunately, my digital camera is on strike. So I bought a crappy disposable camera and got a photo CD with my pictures from Grand Cayman. These pictures remind me of why I will never be a professional photographer, and also why you get what you pay for when you buy a crappy $6 digital camera. Half the pictures I took were obscured by my thumb, and the other half were too blurry and/or grainy to comprehend. But, I'm nonetheless posting a few of my best shots here because I don't like having my blog posts look "too gray."

OK, actually I'm too stoopid to figure out how to change the size of my photos in iPhoto in order to get them down to decent displayable size. But this one of me, my sister and cousin was already small enough. My sister and cousin came to visit me a few weeks ago and spent an entire week here. This picture was taken at WildWater West - it's kind of a ripoff, actually. I don't recommend it, but if you're entertaining guests in Sioux Falls, you'll probably have to take them there because there aren't many other options.