So, I had considered buying a digital SLR - I have kids, lots of them, and they are always moving...so in order to take good pictures you need a camera that has action options! SLRs are the way to go to take quick pictures from what I have been told and now researched (thanks for the links Berkans!)
So okay, that works well, and it just so HAPPENS that Costco had a good deal on a package - actually it was an AMAZING deal really. A Canon camera with two lenses and the bag for a total of $599 - the same package at Best Buy without the bag was over $800 and at Don's Photo Shop online it was over $1100 - crazy, heh?? But still way more than I really wanted to pay for a camera - mostly because then we would have to either buy a separate digital camcorder or another point and shoot to have video options. So we did the online research and I just couldn't' bring myself to buy it at this point -so we went shopping for something smaller. Anyway, being the good shoppers that we are - but the terrible buyers - we didn't buy anything. I had basically decided to buy the same camera I shopped for my father-in-law for. It still is at the top of so many consumer reports of point and shoots....anyway, that night we bought nothing because we were going to the homeschooling convention in Saskatoon at the end of last week, which was going to be expensive enough, right?
Carry on a few days and we went to Saskatoon, and got there just in time to join some friends for lunch in the hotel restaurant. Well, would you believe it - our friends had seen the Prime Minister of Canada that morning leaving their hotel!!! "A" said she didn't want to take his picture and get tackled...LOL!!! How exciting!
The convention was at the Saskatoon Inn, and they have a lunch buffet as well as full menu service, and were just getting ready to have lunch, and all of a sudden there was an 'air'. You know what I mean, a sense of something happening, you could actually feel it in the room, and then within a few minutes we noticed lots of men dressed in black suits, talking into their hands! Before we knew it Mr. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, came into the restaurant with his whole entourage! About 6-8 people that sat with him and then a few designated security that didn't sit.
Here is a link to my friend's blog that tells the same story at home with the keffers: What a weekend! . So Mr. Harper went to the buffet, helped himself, and everyone in the restaurant had a hard time eating! My husband went up to shake his hand and was asked to wait as the PM was still eating. So when he was done, Greg got up and intercepted their path to shake his hand and say thanks for governing our country! So cool...then if you can even believe this - our friends' got their picture taken with him....really! By the official photographer and everything, turns out that "M" knows one of the PMs entourage from his hometown! Very cool, I can hardly wait to see the picture when they get it e-mailed to them!
You know, I realize he is just a guy, just a guy who is doing his job, but it is a prestigous job, an important job, and one that I don't envy him! I would hate to be the one making tough decisions and then having the press be more worried about your hair than your policies! It was pretty cool to 'dine' with the PM - to be just as close to him as we would have been if we had paid $100 a seat at a fundraising banquet! There was even one heckler there in the restaurant who should just be glad we live in Canada where she can be so vocal about her stupid, uneducated opinion! ;)
Here is my bad picture taken with my awful camera! The guy in the green coat, who is likely texting everyone he knows to let them know that the PM is here in the same room, is completely clear, but not the subject of the photo! Obviously Mr. Harper is the gentleman in the suit holding a plate, center of the frame. Oh, why didn't I buy a better camera on Monday????
3 comments:
Ah, the opposite of buyer's remorse. I have had it a couple times, too! How fun that you got to see the PM. It is interesting to see people like that in an unusual place and sometimes it does make you realize that they, too, are just people after all!
Charity, buy the camera!! ;) I feel bad for not taking a better picture!
You know camera buying is so tough!!
I have a big fancy one now and with a nice lens and it takes amazing videos too....the first SLR to do this but....there is always one isn't there. But I find that to get the action shots all clear like I want I am going to have to buy another lens. The kind the sports people use. This one does do way better that the point and shoots and the graininess is gone but truth is you get what you pay for and then you will always want more.
Hmmm, isn't that how it always goes?!
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