Friday, February 20, 2009

No Such Luck!

Ok, so this past weekend (Feb 13-16th) we took a fun little trip to Moab, UT. Paul decided that he needed to try his Land Rover Discovery on some rock crawling trails. As my life sometimes goes, I didn't have a camera that worked with me! My wonderful husband got me a nice new one for Christmas and he thought it was so cool, because it had a rechargeable lithium battery. Just plug in a cord and charge it up. That's the problem...I lost the cord. Can't find it anywhere! I think that it went out with the copious amounts of Christmas trash(2 weeks worth of stuffing my garbage can and the 2 neighbors' FULL)! Anyway I digress...no cord, no working battery, no camera. At first I just thought I'd go to Radio Shack and get new one, they always have the cord I need, no such luck! They had universal chargers for everything but Kodak! Stupid Kodak! So finally I went to the Kodak online store, found what I needed, paid the extra shipping for "next business day" and planned on having time to charge my battery. No such luck! I ordered on Wednesday, we left on Friday afternoon and no sign of UPS. So I grabbed my "old" camera that was sucking AA batteries like crazy, but still in working condition. I thought we'd be fine and get some GREAT shots in Moab. No such luck! Saturday morning we get on a trail (I can't remember it's name, just that it was a moderate trail) and think it's a great photo op, and the camera tells me to change the batteries. I was prepared with a new set, changed them and tried to get a photo...No such luck! Paul got all of the kids out of the Rover and the camera would NOT stay on! Every time I pushed the shutter button...No such luck! The stupid thing would turn itself off. So for the rest of the weekend I tried to take pictures and Paul kept commenting about "great photo ops" or how it would be great if I had a good camera to take a picture with, maybe a nice one like the one sitting at home with no charge. So we really did go to Moab, did "Fins-n-Things", Kassidy really did cry like a little girl and almost pee her pants a few times (out of fear), Emma really did refuse to pee in the wilderness, Addison really did loose a sketcher sneaker (just one) some where along the trail, and Nate really did sleep through it all! I just don't have pictures to document any of it! But when I got home...my charger was sitting in the front seat of my van (the UPS guy didn't want it to get lost!)!

3 comments:

Jodi said...

Isn't that just life! We lost the cord to our camcorder and a couple moves later I finally found it. Even though no great pictures you have great memories.

Tringali Family said...

That is so annoying for you! At least you had some fun and good memories even if there are no pics.

Cynthia said...

AAAHHH! Unfortunately, I know just how you feel. However, you did a great job describing everything. I laughed and laughed while I was moaning with empathy.