I’m posting early because we’re leaving for Zagreb this evening and I don’t know if I’ll get a chance to get to wifi between now and then. This morning we hit up the National Museum and the History Museum. They were both good, but the National Museum was very stark and depressing: half of it dealt solely with the war. Very well-done and eye-opening.

After that, we sat in a cafe and took refuge from the rain, then John headed home and I went wandering. Found several more of those Sarajevo Roses — I’ll post them when I get a chance.

Anyway, on a side area of the main walking street is a giant chess board, and the guys playing were so hilarious that I had to take a video — pictures just didn’t do it justice. Sorry for the camera shake — I was trying not to visibly laugh, but I wasn’t having much success. :-) The look the one guy gives the other one at the end… OMG, DYING laughing. :-D

Waiting for the show

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The movie man. I have to say that I freaking love my camera (ok, my 50mm lens, actually.) It was actually so dark when I took this that I couldn't have read a book... and I handheld the camera for this shot. Sweet.

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Monday's movie.

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Such a funny movie. :-)

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Well, I didn’t get in as much skiing as I’d planned… In fact, I really didn’t ski a whole lot. Part of it is that I was really tired yesterday (was out late on Friday) and I’m pretty out of skiing shape, and I also kinda sorta was going too fast and did a cartwheeling faceplant downhill into the mountain on my third run, which left me quite bruised and sore (and I’m still hurting today. Whoops.) But mostly, I was having a heck of an awesome time taking pictures of skiiers and snowboarders.

Tomorrow’s post will be with pictures that I took of other people, but for Laura today, here’s some of the pictures of her son. Click here for a gallery of all the pictures.

I ended up going home when my camera battery gave out and I realized my spare was still on the charger at home (lame mistake!) but I figure I got a few good shots at least, so it’s a start. I definitely want to go back there sometime and take more pictures–good times. :-)

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Flight.

[Click here for more pictures]

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Their signs amused me. Find the two funnies on this one (hint--think heaven and piranhas...)

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Another funny sign. Nothing like a good curse to deter theft.

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Like I said, I'm a bad golfer. (I'm the one on the far left.)

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Fun with a long exposure and the windmill hole.

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More long exposure fun--the Scandia Screamer ride (no, I didn't go on it.)

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Finally, something I *am* good at--air hockey!

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Sun through the window at work

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Last night’s trivia round was “moderately hard”, according to the Trivia Master, but the questions led one team to name themselves “Moderately Hard, My Ass”. The questions killed us, and as a result we did uncharacteristically poorly (not helped by the fact that I second-guessed myself on two questions and so we missed them both!) So as a consolation, we decided to stick around and play darts. As a side note, if anyone knows someone in Sacramento who has a strong sports knowledge, we’ll buy ‘em beer if they want to be on our trivia team. We have a major hole in the sports knowledge department… Guess that’s what happens when you get a bunch of geeks together.

My trivia team: "Drinkers With a Trivia Problem"

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Yesterday I went skiing again (I have two more free passes left, and then a coworker is going to give me one for taking senior pictures of her son, so I’m pretty set for what’s left of winter.) It was kind of a lousy skiing day, all things considered – the time change (ok, and a late Friday/Saturday night) left me groggy, I got on the road late, got to the cheap rental place late and they were out of my size skis and poles, I ended up standing in a long line to rent poles at the slope because the ones I had just weren’t going to work, it was a lot colder than I thought it was going to be, and to top it all off, then I decided I’d try something different, and after I got stuck and had to take my skis off to walk out, I ended up getting stuck almost waist-deep in the snow. Bad bad move. However, at least I got to be outside on a very lovely (albeit cold!) day, and I got a change of scenery.

In Spanish, "Sierra Nevada" means "snowy saw". Quite apt, eh?

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