and then the world went splat!

I just uploaded some Guam photos from... January of last year. I'm still trying to work my way through the backlog.

All the photos can be found here

In other news I arrived home today only to find out that my Grandparents are visiting. Honestly, I wish my parents had WARNED me because I would have shown up in full riot gear or at the very least worn a bucket over my head. We pulled up and there they were. My lucky day.

My grandmother wasted no time with the nitpicking and my grandfather doesn't quite get the concept of closing the door when in the restroom (Why yes, I may be just a little traumatized...)

I love them but can somebody just shoot me now?

Until further notice I am declaring my room a bunker and am taking shelter with the cat.

I was lucky enough to spend 4 whole days in Vail over my birthday. Four wonderfully cold, beautiful days full of skiing. This is probably part 1 of a 3 part picspam. Or maybe 4 part. I haven't decided yet. Anyways, enjoy the frosty mountain goodness below the cut. :)

( More Mountain Madness )

I was lucky enough to spend my New Years Day in New Orleans. The first place I headed too upon entering the city was the graveyard. Creepy yes, but oh so cool. I went a little camera crazy there... which means that there are many many many pictures behind the cut.

Enjoy!

( More cemetery photos this way... )

I ended up in Thailand a few weeks ago. It was a complete and total fluke. I was supposed to spend my layover in Germany but my company felt that my time was better spent in the lovely country of Thailand.

They got absolutely no complaints out of me.

The only issues came up when we discovered that they had reserved rooms for us at the airport hotel in Bangkok (or should I say 45 minutes outside of Bangkok and surrounded by absolutely nothing). This would not do.

I ended up being the lucky duck who got to unravel our unfortunate hotel situation. Multiple calls later from Germany and Qatar and we finally convinced them to let us stay with the pilots in a little place called Pattaya, an hour and a half east of Bangkok, in the Hard Rock Hotel.



( Where I rode elephants, played with a monkey, rode in an ox cart, ate a bug and went to a sex show. )

Most of my photos average around 20 views total. Not all that good, but not all that bad either. I really don't go out of my way to promote them (because I get lazy).

My most viewed photo, with 464 views, was taken off the coast of Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria. It was a Sunday: rain was pouring down and some of it was defeating our covered boat and finding its way in through the windows. We were on our way to a private beach further up the coast for a day of fun and food - hopefully. The boat had finally just left the dock where we had entertained ourselves by watching the tides bring in massive amounts of garbage and counting the number of flip-flops amongst the flotsam. Don't believe me on the flip-flops thing? go count for yourselves...



This was my most viewed photo.

( Not Anymore )

Oh yeah, the PC I cart around with me whilst traveling DIED and I had to replace it and I am so DAMN BROKE right now. (It hurts my soul)