We have a ton of photos from vacation. Well, a little over a thousand to be exact! I did a little calculation and figured that we had taken the equivalent of over 50 rolls of film! Wow!
Of course, that is the incredible thing about digital cameras – especially when you take your notebook along with you 
– just fill up the camera with photos, download to your notebook, and start fresh the next day! Carrie and I really enjoy photography and had fun looking through the photos from each day.
Since we have so many photos, it seemed impractical to post them individually here – that would take too long. So, I came up with a little photo collage technique so that I could post several at a time…
After getting our email from Isla Mujeres announcing our engagement (the photo series on Carrie’s blog) one of my friends commented tongue-in-cheek, “You should have gotten more pictures of the ring.” My reply, “Oh, don’t worry – we did!”
So, below, in all of her freshley engaged glory, is the lovely Carrie (soon-to-be-Batt) Colbert! I have to let you all know that Carrie didn’t walk around holding her left hand out with her mouth open all of the time we were in Mexico – just a considerable amount of it. Say, somewhere between 85–90% of her waking hours.
It was actually quite amazing to watch Carrie in action — all of a sudden she would point or eat with her left hand, even though all of these years she has been right handed. She also became a master of the engagement segue… For example, when asking for beach towels, she might say, “Can we have some beach towels? Thank you so much… Did I mention to you that we got engaged?!?” or the waiter might come by and ask, “Can I get you anything?” and Carrie would perk up and say, “What? You want to see my ring? You know we got engaged, right?!” Very smooth.
On Sunday night (not quite 48–hours of being engaged), we were sitting on the beach enjoying the sunset – very near the place where I had proposed. They had dinner on the beach set up for another couple (copycat b*stards!) and the couple was just coming out onto the beach — and the girl was “Ahh-ing” — as we were leaving. Well, I was leaving — Carrie was making a beeline straight for them to let them know – yes – that we had had dinner on this exact same beach a few nights ago and we got engaged!!! All this while I pretended not to know her.
As we went up the stairs to our room I lovingly whispered to Carrie, “What the hell were you doing?” and her only reply was an embarrassed, “I don’t know! I don’t know!”
We crossed paths with that same couple the next morning – although Carrie now tried to avoid them, slightly embarrassed for interrupting their little beach dinner. We discovered that they also had in fact gotten engaged that night. Of course, the guy really didn’t have a choice, did he?
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It only took me about a year and a half to complete the degree. However, that year and a half was spread out over almost three years! See, I started taking classes back in the Fall of 2001 – two classes every eight weeks. But then one eight-week session I decided that I was too busy and that I would hold off on taking classes until the next session. Two months later I came up with a new excuse of why that session wouldn’t work well either. And so it continued until 2004!
