Mythbusting at 4am

Let's start with the good news: Charles and I are photographing a wedding in the Redwoods in Northern California in June, and then driving down the coast for a week, eventually visiting friends around the LA area. Charles has a friend who is a wine tester in wine country, so we're hoping to contact him and swing by on our way down the coast. I have never been to California, so I'm really really excited about our trip. I've always had the feeling that if I were to visit California, I'd never want to leave, so we're testing that theory.

The bad news: Someone (not mentioning any names here) told me that when they were up at 3am one morning, the flight they were trying to purchase dropped $100 in price. Then at 4am, it dropped again. So, being the frugal person I am, I set my alarm for 3:45 am last Thursday night and thought that I was going to partake in this midnight secret and find all sorts of deals. Well, at 4am, I watched the flight I was hoping to take disappear, so things do change in the middle of the night. And after searching every airline website I knew of or could find, I watched the price increase $20. So, at 4:30, I crawled into bed waking Charles, who didn't fall back to sleep, but tossed and turned until about 5:30, when he just decided to get up for the day, and I was finally able to go back to sleep.

So, I spoke with this person over the weekend, and mentioned my failed attempt to get a deal, and he said that he woke in the night feeling all of this hostility towards himself. Hmm, what could have caused that? I think the funniest part of the whole sad incident is that Gordy lives in the office by the computer, so I kept him awake while I was in there, and at 9am, when he's normally roaming the house and getting in all sorts of trouble, he was sound asleep. Even the rabbit was tired.

Saturday we photographed a wedding for a Jewish couple. One of my other brides said she wished she could have some of the Jewish traditions at her wedding because they were so fun. I agree, Jewish weddings are just fun. It was a really long day, we started preparing around 11am, left home around 12:30pm, and didn't get back home until 1am. I think the only reason we got home then was because the band was only contracted until 12 am so we headed out when they started packing up. I think the wedding guests would have partied most of the night.

Needless to say, we're tired today, really really tired.