Dear Canon,

Congratulations! You people make the most stubbornly resilient camera equipment I have ever come across, or heard of. Since I received your Canon Elph 3 years ago as a Christmas gift, I have dropped it on tile, cement and asphalt innumerable times. It has had a veritable smorgasbord of food and beverages spilled on it, been dropped in the gutter during a rain storm, and most recently it was dropped in the toilet at a party. Apart from the tape that holds one of the hatches together (after a particularly unpleasant run-in with a tile floor) and some mysteriously absent case screws, it looks beautiful and the thing still takes pictures perfectly. You people are my gods. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Sincerely,
Kate West


Proof that the camera works, this is Greg's impression of Humpty Dumpty. He's gonna kill me for this.

Some Party

So, I was looking for new flats this week and I went to this one and the woman who lived there invited me to a party Saturday. That would be last night. So she seemed a little tame but I figured "what the heck, it's a party right?" and I roped Greg into going with me. It was even a costume party after all, there was some serious potential. I dressed up as a hunch from Hunches in Bunches, and Greg was in scrubs with the nametag Dr. Seuss. I would love to post some pictures of this, but...
So we got out there, it was a fair ways out east, and it was in fact pretty tame. We played "pass the parcel" which involved dares like "play balloon soccer with the person to your right" and "sing and act out humpty dumpty." And we spent most of the night talking about Walmart with the guy from North Carolina. However, apparently that one jello (or jelly, as they say here) shot got to me because when I went to the bathroom I managed to drop my digital camera in the toilet. Yes I'm afraid so. It made little bloop-bloop sounds and was very sad. Although not as sad as I was when I had to rescue it. Eww, someone else's toilet. So don't expect too many pictures for a while. I'm going to put it in the magic oven, and if that doesn't work, well, this blog may become a little boring.