Honeymoon Pics

Logan and I just got back from our honeymoon at Universal Studios and I'd like to take a little time to share some of the best bits with you.

First was a plane ride to Orlando.

Then some time at the Harry Potter park followed by some Moose Juice and Goose Juice from the land of the great Dr. Seuss.

The next day we spent some time in a pineapple under the sea.

We saw some cows and robots.

Logan got to visit his favorite time machine.

And that night we caught a great view of the parks from CityWalk, framed by a stage being set up for a New Year's Eve show.

After a long night of sleep in the coolest hotel room ever (that I forgot to take pictures of), we rode in the front row of the Hulk.

And celebrated our survival with some ice cream!

But some of my favorite parts of the trip were small things Logan and I noticed that didn't really have much to do with the thrills of the park. Like this duck who was enjoying a day in our hotel's pool.

 And some super cool beakers at the Monster Cafe.

But best of all was all the time I got to spend with Logan without any pressures to be grown-ups and take care of things around the house. We just got to goof off and be nerds in love, and it was AMAZING!

The Emotional Significance of Pictures

My classmate Hannah Hearn's final presentation for Writing for the Digital Age was about emotions through drawings. She asked some people she knew to draw four pictures, one for happy, one for sad, one for angry, and one for neutral. She then gave the pictures to other people and asked them to tell her what emotion they thought the picture represented. It was interesting to see how some of the drawings were so perfect for their respective emotion that everyone guessed correctly, and how some were completely off the mark.

Hannah's presentation reminded me of a game I played a couple of years ago called Dixit. It's a tabletop game a lot like Apples to Apples except the cards are all pictures instead of words. One person comes up with a word or phrase for one of the cards in his/her hand, then everyone lays a card face-down on the table. The cards are shuffled, and everyone tries to guess which was the dealer's card.

The art is gorgeous and though it sometimes gets silly, I feel that Dixit can get surprisingly insightful. It's fascinating to see how people attach meaning to pictures and how that meaning changes once words are assigned to the pictures. I feel like it would be right up Hannah's alley!