All Things Woompty

The Christmas Miracle

When Kevin and I got married back in 2006, the part we looked forward to most (other than the presents) (HA I AM JOKING) was our honeymoon. A week away from everyone and everything, ensconced in a resort next to the Pacific in Costa Rica; it was exactly what we needed after all the stress and family drama and general craziness that accompanies planning a wedding.

And it was everything we could have possibly wanted. Sleep in, have a late breakfast, go for a swim, have a nap, have lunch, go for a swim, have a nap, have a romantic dinner next to the ocean. Lather, rinse, repeat. Amazingly, I still managed to take about 120 pictures despite all the napping and relaxing. I came home, downloaded them to our computer with the intention of printing them for an album that summer, and then went about my business.

And then we got robbed (sidenote: please notice we are STILL HERE in the same apartment). But the pictures hadn't been printed so they were gone, along with the rest of the pictures I'd downloaded over the past two years (Because WE ARE DUMB and do not have an external hard drive to back things up to. Yet. Still. See? DUMB.) Luckily I had uploaded a few to Flickr, so I consoled myself with those and made a small album out of them.

Fast forward to a couple weeks ago. Mom calls, and asks about my honeymoon pictures and what they might look like because she just found a mystery folder of pictures that looked like they might be our honeymoon pictures....on her computer. At her house. Far away from my cameras or our burglers. And as we talked, the two of us suddenly remembered that when we got home from the honeymoon, I had downloaded the pictures to her computer to make it easier to show them to everyone that was at the house! And they were all still there!

So 2 1/2 years after they disappeared, our honeymoon pictures have come home, all 120 of them Who says there's no such thing as miracles?

posted by Melinda @ 2:04 PM