Tuesday, October 8, 2013

I'm in total surprise/shock/amazement/etc!!!!!!

Yesterday I was nosing about on the inter-webs and while following different links I found an image of some orca whales in front of a whale watching boat
The boat immediately looked familiar and so I enlarged it on the website and discovered that it was, in fact, the boat I'd done my whale watching trip on back in 2004 in the San Juan Islands, WA.  I decided to save the photo and maybe have it printed and put it in my scrapbook from that trip as I didn't have any pictures of the boat.  Well, today I was looking through my saved photos on my computer and was actually going to delete this one but I thought, just for shits and giggles, wouldn't it be amazing if I was actually on that boat?  So, I opened the image in Paint and enlarged it and just started at the bow of the boat and worked my way backward because I was all over the boat that day.  Well, guess what?  I am IN the photo!!!!!!!
I circled me in red.  I mean, what are the odds!  You may be wondering how I can know it's me.  Well, the size is right.  The way I stand and hold my camera are right.  The clothing would have been similar, if not identical, to what I was wearing during that trip.  I just can't believe it.  A chance photo taken by someone on another whale watching boat.  Island Adventures doesn't even use the Island Explorer II anymore.  I'm so glad I decided to look closer at the picture before deleting it.

Very cool, huh?

My new phone has been delivered today.  I'm glad FedEx didn't make me wait until tomorrow, but there's still no reason they couldn't have done it yesterday.  But anyway, I got an email a few minutes ago telling me it had been delivered.  It's already activated and set up.  All I have to do is turn it on and do a couple of "housekeeping" things on it and then I'll be good to go.  I get unlimited talk/text/data for only $19 (+tax) per month.  The phone is a Motorola Defy XT.  Next month they're releasing the Moto X, but I won't buy that for awhile.  A little too expensive for my tastes, even with a $100 rebate on the Defy XT.

Well, I guess I should get back to work.  Well, I'm on my lunch break but I only have 5 minutes left and there's other things I need to do.  I just wanted to share how exciting it was to find this picture from 2004.


  1. Good for you! I love it when you realize something new, and that you would happen to be in the boat at the time that the picture was taken. I have had stuff like that happen to me. So cool!

    1. I think this is the first time something like this has ever happened to me. Definitely exciting. That's cool it's happened to you, too!

  2. What a terrific find with the photo! I almost was hit by a Fed-Ex truck today. I was going to walk behind the truck and he threw it in reverse w/o looking! That was a bit of a shock! He apologized but I thought how USPS always tell us do not back up! Of course we have to in a lot of cases but always be alert. And check twice...then twice again. Hope you and your new phone bond,LOL.

    1. Really? My gosh. I'm glad you weren't hit. A semi almost merged into my lane this morning while I was still in it. Luckily he saw me in time. He should've looked first, though.

      My phone is charging right now. FedEx left it in front of the front door and never knocked or anything so it sat there for almost 4 hours! I'm sure we'll be very happy together. :)