5.24.09 This was my day...

Both Marc and I woke up sick this morning. We called in sick and spent the day on the couch the way Charlie's grandparents laid in bed. It was pretty much miserable, but we're just grateful we don't have sick little kids to take care of at the same time.

09.04.09 Costa Rica

These are some shots from our honeymoon in beautiful Costa Rica...

A few of the resort...

The pool was a series of connected pools. Marc's favorite was the swim-up bar.

And the Manuel Antonio National Park...

We saw quite a few of these huge lizards in the park.

They blended right in with the foliage, however, so each time we found one was a surprise.

We also encountered some monkeys eating nuts in the trees high above us. No photos good enough to post though.

We hiked for a while to find this hidden cove. It is was pouring rain by the time we found it,

so we didn't need to get in the water to get soaking wet.

And some of the crazy drive through the mountains from San Jose to the coast...

Our trusty little Suzuki "SUV".

And of San Jose...

What is a little more interesting about these photos is how they were lost and found.

Sometime in September our camera went missing. The last time Marc and I remembered using it was when we took it down to a Juab High School football game to show his family some photos from our honeymoon. We had his mom and sister look everywhere in their cars and called the Mexican restaurant in Nephi where we ate that night to ask if a camera had been found, but we had no luck anywhere.

We weren't so disappointed about losing the camera as we were about losing the photos from our honeymoon. I hadn't taken the time to upload them on my computer yet so all we had as memories were the three or four photos I had taken with my fuji instax.

But it is what it is, so life went on until one day in March...

I got a text from our friend Travis while I was at work. "I have your camera," it said.

Travis and his wife Alison live down in Cedar City but just stayed the night at our house the night before, so I assumed that my new camera had accidentally been mixed in with their stuff while they were packing. However, I had brought my camera to work that day to take some photos of one of our tax programs. I checked my purse, and sure enough it was in there.

I replied, "No you don't. Its in my purse," thinking they had mistook the camera they had with mine.

In response, Travis sent me a photo of Alison holding a blue Nikon camera. It was the camera we had lost back in September! I was beyond happy but confused about how they had wound up with it.

Apparently they had gone to lunch at the Mexican restaurant in Nephi that day while they were there visiting Travis's family. One of the waitresses brought out the camera and said she had been waiting for them to come in because the camera had been left and she had recognized Travis from some of the photos. Apparently when we had called back in September that specific waitress wasn't working at that time.

One of the photos on our lost camera...Marc, Travis, me, and Alison.

Thank goodness that Nephi is small enough that everybody knows everybody!