There's always been adventure about our relationship. There's always been photography about our relationship. Of course then sprinkle in a few healthy drops of creativity.
In the year after we were married, I traveled with a production crew to Greece as a production assistant. The executive producer of the series was kind enough to arrange my return flight to the States with an extended layover in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam?
Yeah. Schiphol Airport, Holland. Gateway to the rest of this tiny country as well as Western Europe. Holland, though, is where I have family and where Kimmer 'n I met once my Greece gig was over (it actually ended on the island of Santorini). She flew from Seattle to Amsterdam (prolly with a flight change in Chicago). I flew from Santorini to Athens and then to Amsterdam.
Once we met up in Holland, we stayed with family there (two different homes, I think, maybe three) and went on whirlwind visits with family in other parts of the country along with a bit of straight up tourism.
The Efteling's where that photo of the two of us above was snapped. The Efteling which is a fantasy themed amusement park with a section that's literally just a nice and quiet park.
And yes.
We are on a roller coaster and I'm taking a picture with an old fashioned SLR, the kind where the film had to be developed before you could actually see the photograph you'd just taken.
Also, I'm not really experiencing the roller coaster, am I.
Yeah. That's a habit that never really went away although I will say it was replaced and enabled by much better and smaller tech.
Adventure, though.
Photography.
Creativity.
I was gonna say these things characterized our dating and newlywed years but who am I kidding?
Tomorrow morning (early morning) we get on a flight to Orlando for a Universal Studios vacation. Aside from the smart phones we're both packing, I've got a Kodak cube cam that shoots with a 180 degree field of view. We're also bringing with us cards we made for each other (actually, cards we're in the process of making for each other) in celebration of our wedding anniversary this coming Tuesday.
As I said, who am I kidding?
Adventure, photography, and creativity has always been our jam.
When we were dating, the adventure was usually state fairs, the Seattle Center, and day trips to places like Whidbey Island. When we got married, we added Disneyland and Disney World to our repertoire (along with that one glorious trip to Holland). During Linzy's junior high and high school years it was summer camp every year atop the occasional Disney surprise. And then in recent years we added the Escape Campervan experience for separate adventures down the West Coast, along the California coast, throughout the California interior, and from the bottom left corner of Utah to the middle right side of the state, ticking off National Parks as we went.
Of course we took a billion photographs in the process.
And one of us wrote a metric ton about it.
Adventure.
Photography.
Creativity.
From Christmas trees, to birthday/anniversary/holiday cards, to special events, to interior design, to birthday parties (surprise and otherwise), to road trips, to vacations heck.
Even when it comes to our day to day. It's simply how we enter into the world together. And, apparently, it's gonna be how we keep entering into the world.
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