Labor Day Fun

We got the privilege of hanging out with my college roommate and his wife on Labor Day.  We hung out at the pool all day enjoying the weather and the sun.  Elise and I also brought along our croquet and bocce ball set.  We enjoyed playing and snapping pictures of the fun- below are some favorites.

Jen executing a nice roquet.

Elise starting out with a nice shot through the twin wickets.

Alex bouncing the ball up the hill.

Kent striking on line.

Jen admiring Elise's form.

Kent with a nice tweener.

Elise is not left-handed- this may be why she didn't clear the fence.

Sizing up her shot.

Our closes ball of the day goes to Jen.
About two blades of grass separated the balls.

The Kraushaar Kombo with two great throws.

Happy couple #1 cooling off in the pool.

Happy couple #2 enjoying the water.

Underwater Fun

We get to go to Hawaii on Friday for 10 days!! I, Alex, have never been; we are both very excited.  In anticipation of snorkeling and other water related fun we got a digital water proof (30') underwater camera.  We looked into renting an underwater case for our Nikon but the cost did not seem worth it.  We will still be taking our DSLR with us, but we will have our new camera along for the fun too.  We settled on a Vivitar Vivicam 8400 for cost and functionality.  It is a regular digital camera so setting customization is much less.  It can take 8 megapixels photos as well as video.  It arrived today so we played around with it in Elise's parents pool for an hour or so to get used to it.  These are the first pictures on the blog not from a DSLR.  Besides our Nikon D60 we had used a Nikon D80 as well.  Below are some select pictures from our first go at it.

I snapped Elise floating from below the surface.
The light diffraction between water and air is pretty apparent.

Right after I jumped in.

Elise cruising around the pool.

Right after Elise jumped in.

Toy animal enjoying the jacuzzi jet.

Bubbles!

Pool Season

This past Saturday was excellent weather for an opening pool day.  Elise and I spent the afternoon at her parents house and enjoyed the sun, water, company and drinks.  Below are pictures we snapped throughout the afternoon.  We used Jessie's (Elise's sister) Nikon D80 to shoot these.  We are borrowing her camera for about a month and thought it'd be good to shoot some pfotos with it.

Surprise!!

I thought it'd be fun to snap some pictures behind the waterfall  and catch the distortion
of the palm branches.  There wasn't enough room for my head and the camera behind
the waterfall so the shots were a bit of trial and error to capture it right.

Jessie enjoying the jacuzzi.

Elise and Jessie sharing a laugh.

Elise got some great shots of Birds of Paradise really looking like birds.