kristian's blog

ok, not quite live i guess… but close! to celebrate our 5th anniversary last week, my wife Kim and i decided to take a little vacation. to be honest, we take vacations quite rarely, but we decided to get away for a few days around the 4th of july. kim and i are pretty big twins fans so we decided to take a little road trip down to kansas city to see the twins play a 3 game series against the royals. thanks to the royals poor performance over the last several years, good tickets to royals games are very easy to come by, and not to mention about half the price of a comparable ticket at the dome!

while we were in kansas city we had some beautiful weather and had a great chance to relax and see the sights. we went to the negro leagues baseball museum which was really amazing! we also made sure to catch some of the delicious bbq that kansas city has to offer. verrryy good stuff.

we also took a drive to the Powell Gardens that are just outside of kansas city. they’re absolutely gorgeous and very relaxing. some amazing flowers and foliage.

one day we decided to play a little mini golf too….

while at the baseball games we were also treated to fireworks after the game at kauffman stadium.

i know the photos aren’t much, but when i go on vacation i don’t like to bring my pro equipment with me. so these shots are just with my little Fuji Finepix F11 (a japanese version of the F10). you can really get fantastic results from good point-n-shoot cameras when you read the manual.

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well its march 13th and winter has finally arrived in the twin cities. my wife even got a snow day today and that hasn’t happened in about two years too!

anyway, i know i’ve been telling everyone about our new house. it has been a very long time coming. we started the process last july to put our old house up for sale, then sold it in 5 days after spending 5 weeks to get it ready. we’ve been living since october in a house that’s being renovated and we just finally moved into our new house two weeks ago. we’re so so happy to finally be in there. i’ve got a huge office space to work in and a great presentation room as well (once i get some furniture for it). i’m looking forward to showing it to all of my clients when they come by for consultations or to pick up albums or prints! anyway, here’s a shot of our new house amidst all the snow today.