It's, in my not so humble opinion, one of the most beautiful places on Earth! There is so much diversity here with plants and wildlife, not a day goes by that I'm not amazed at SOMETHING! Lol. Computer has been ordered, and I'm now waiting rather impatiently for it to arrive! Could arrive as early as the week following the 1st, as late as the 8th lol. I also got to order vue 9.5, and hubby insisted I order it on the DVD instead of the download; it should arrive next Wednesday. I can't blame him on the DVD; I dunno how many times in the past year I've had to re-download Vue 7 because of external hard drive issues. He had to listen to my fussing about it lol. I have a new external HD now, but he wants me to have an "official" hard copy of the program. As for the computer, we did end up going a little over budget, but HE was the one who added the 140$ mouse/keyboard bundle - he liked the look of them (rolls eyes). We couldn't find a comparable monitor to the one I really liked at Dell around here, so we ended up getting the one at Dell. He also insisted I go ahead and get the 16gb of memory from the start so I wouldn't have to deal with it later. I explained to him what you all taught me about the video card, so we DID go with the beautiful 3gb GTX 590 card. Now, I just have to be patient until my preciouses come in... Boy this is gonna be a looooooong few weeks! On top of waiting for this, on the 1st, hubby and I get to sign the paperwork making our marriage of the heart actually legal; we leave the next morning to go visit my parents a few days and pick up the rest of our things out of storage there... Not looking forward to the travel time, but I do miss my family, so it'll be worth it :) Anyways, that's the update!!!! Can't wait to play in Vue 9.5 :) :) :). I took a BUNCH of pics last Tuesday on our way to fish (and while fishing) - mostly for reference photos so I can try to recreate some of the natural beauty of this area. :). ~meli

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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