Fun in the way-to-hot sun!

[forever_wandering]

Since I'm trying to lose weight, I make a habit of eating home-cooked meals as opposed to eating out. During my mini-vacation with Mugen though, we ate out quite a bit and I can feel that I've put on weight, even though it doesn't show. 

And it doesn't help that Mugen gave me an awesome box of chocolates made with all sorts of unusual ingredients.

Ginger, Wasabi, Black Sesame. 
Hickory Uncured Bacon, Alderwood Smoked Salt. 
Mexican Ancho  & Chipotle Chillies and Ceylon Cinnamon. 
Oaxacan Guajillo y Pasilla Chillies. 

So far, I've only tried one of the Ginger, Wasabi and Black Sesame chocolates. I thought it would taste disgusting, but it actually wasn't bad at all! 

Anyway, we decided to go hang out at a water park since the weather was nice and the tickets were cheap. Even though I wore SPF +50 sunblock, I still got sunburnt! Since we arrived early, we had time to get on all the rides. My favorite one was a slide where as you near the end, the tubes become transparent and you can see real dolphins swimming around you as you go down. After we got on everything, we relaxed near the pool. 

Aaaah, so much fun!!

読んでくれて、ありがとうございました！

♥♡Zia♡♥

Comments

[kurikuribebi]

Thanks for your comment!
I've never seen chocolates of this kind until he gave them to me either. I'm going to take my time enjoying them to make sure I really absorb each flavor =)

I actually just play around with the contrast and color when I look at pictures =) I usually drop the brightness by 20, then increase the brightness by 10.

[nightfall404.livejournal.com]

That's natural vignette? On a FujiFinepix? Remarkable. I'll check out PicMonkey- I used Picnik before it was taken over by Google, use a combination of Aviary (through the browser like Picmonkey/Picnik) and GIMP (since it allows me to do vignette) but I've still not been massively impressed with the results. Will see if Picmonkey gives me the 'quick tweak' effect that I'm after, thanks.

They're also really good quality photos. I'm always slightly surprised at what compacts are capable of these days- I'd assumed they were taken on an SLR.

[kurikuribebi]

I guess so? I'm not great at photography. I just snap a picture, plug the chip in my computer and mess around with the contrast and colors.
I used to use Instagram, but I got sick of it extremely fast.

An SLR is something I want to invest in. The camera I'm using now is almost 3 years old.