So Much Adventure!

Dan and I were at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine today, volunteering at the Gluten Free Makeover event that the North Texas Gluten Intolerance Group put on (pretty much because my mom was organizing all the volunteers and she enlisted us to help). According to my mom, the event would be considered a success if they sold 400 tickets... and they sold over 700! So I'm going to say that it went really well.

Two hours of passing out tons of GF samples to folks and we were done with our shift (and were really parched), but part of the reason we volunteered is because the Gaylord Texan would validate our parking - and parking out there is expensive! (Yes, we are cheap.) Since volunteering got us on the Gaylord's site for free, we took advantage of our time there and wandered around for about and hour and a half (after I talked a bartender into giving us some water).

While wandering (and sweating for the outside wandering bits), I played with the new camera a bit. I really do need to actually read the manual on this puppy. I'm doing okay with it (I think) but I know the camera can do more when the person behind it knows how to use it properly. But until I sit down for some serious technical reading, I'm still taking pictures and learning by trial and error. For example, one thing I've learned is that I really need to remember to check the light meter when I have it on full manual. Otherwise I have a tendency to overexpose. Oops. Hey, it's a learning process!

I did managed to take a few neat pictures, overexposures aside. Well, about 30 but I picked 8 that I uploaded on Flickr so I could experiment with posting a slideshow. Volunteering, wandering, picture taking, Flickr uploading and slideshows! It's a day of adventure around here, let me tell you!

Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.

So there we go - that was our adventure today!