Technology frustrations

I am WAY behind on this blog, and that is mainly because of the camera issues that I had while we were on our trip in March and April. I had bought a new camera shortly before we left on our trip and was learning how to use it.  At the last minute I decided to take my old camera along as well, and I am so glad that I did!

We spent the first few days of our trip in Iowa, helping Rachel out with some babysitting because she had two evenings of conferences that week. Each of those evenings we went over to her school with Jeremiah to have dinner with her.  On one of those visits,  I managed to spill a large cup of sweetened iced tea all over my purse, which just happened to contain my new camera. The camera got pretty wet, but I dried it off and it seemed to be ok. I took a few more pictures with it that evening. But after that I was not able to even turn the camera on---it was totally useless!  I'm so glad that I had gotten it at a really good price at Target---I didn't lose too much money on it.

Once we got to CA, I continued to have some camera issues. I had my old camera with me, but the memory card from my new camera wouldn't work in it. Got a new one, but it had to be "formatted" which Matt did for me. (Because I had no idea what that meant)  So I thought my problems were solved. Oh no,  I was taking pictures on one of our outings when all of a sudden I lost all the pictures I had just taken.  Still don't know why that happened. But Matt "formatted" the memory card for me again--he thought maybe he had not done it right the first time.  And since then I haven't had any more issues.

But....now I have some pictures on the computer, and some on the iPad, and some on the tablet. I'm trying to figure out how to get at all of them so that I can put together some blog posts.  And I'm also trying to figure out how to write blog posts on the iPad and the tablet, since that's where some of my pictures are. All of this is a pretty big challenge for me. :(

So....this is the first attempt at writing a post on the iPad. I'll see if it actually works, and if it does I'll see if I can do one with pictures next time.