Daybreak Carnival 2011 Photobooth

We were invited back to the annual Daybreak back-to-school carnival this year. Once again Dave and I setup the photobooth and we quickly found ourselves very deep in customers wanting their portraits taken. We made a poor decision when we promoted our portaits for only 1 ticket this year. At those prices some would come armed with tickets asking for 3-5 portraits to be taken at a time. We found ourselves SO deep in the weeds. Our printer ran for about 5 straight hours printing 4x6s and we were finally asked to leave by the police 90mins after the carnival ended. We had very patient customers who waited to get their prints till the very end. If we don't make some changes for next year our customer will likely defect or riot. Likely the latter. Here are a few of my favorites from the day.

morning in miami

Looks like a good start to a thursday

When squirrels rest on your deck

this is what it looks like

Back to CR

After a two year hiatus from international surf trips, me, dave and spiker got back at it last week with a couple days in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica. Pretty great time all around. Smoking hot during the day. Less hot at night. Reliable A/C in the room. Spacious pool. Good waves. Fish. Fish. and Fish for dinner. The buzz in the water was this large swell headed our way wednesday. "Biggest so far this year". Gee, great. The head-highs were plenty for us suburban gringos at the time. Sure enough there were some solid 10 ft bombs wednesday morning. We decided to sit the morning out. Good decision. Headed out later that afternoon for some large closeouts. Amazing - none of the locals were out. They knew where it was on. We apparently did not. Dave was abruptly launched back into shore and spit out on the sand. I lasted a bit longer but didn't fair much better that afternoon.

Not many pics this trip. Much more time just soaking in the R&R. I wish I had captured the scene on the beach in front of our hotel tuesday evening. Really beautiful. The setting sun airbrushed this peach and blue sky against the black sand beach. The sea was churning out consistent barrels and there was no shortage of local shredders showcasing their skills for all the people hanging on the shore - young and old - while the day faded into darkness. Truly cinematic. I think I own the soundtrack.

Here are a few pics.

April in NYC

A weekend trip to NYC with Mike, Kelly and Dave. Couldn't have been better. When I say better I mean the fellowship and the weather and the sites. What could have been better was not having our reservation cancelled for saturday night. Or having our rebooked hotel room tell us at 12:30am that our room has a plumbing problem and they graciously rebooked us in queens. Or for the low price of $290 we could stay in times sq at the econolodge. 5 hours sleep for $290. Hey but they did have free continental breakfast so I guess it was worth it. Some pics from the weekend.