We started out early, before sunrise. I’d been seeing amazing sunrises all week, and Alan had borrowed a colleague’s Nikon D80 he wanted to test out, so I suggested we bundle up and hit the beach to play with the camera and take some pretty pictures of the sunrise. We got out to the water just as the sun was starting to rise, and Tim Horton’s in hand, played with the D80. Alan owns a D40 that I’m starting to get the hang of using, so I played with it while he tested out the D80.

It was a bit too cloudy to get anything really breathtaking, but we had fun. The water was really calm, and it was so quiet. It was a nice way to greet the day. Also? It was a super nice spring day. On our way back to the apartment, we dropped my car off to get an oil change, and walked the four or five blocks home, in the early morning. I spent an hour or so on Alan’s computer playing with the pictures I had taken, and there are probably four or five that are “good-ish”, and I will post them later. We spent the rest of the morning lazing about, reading books and playing on our respective computers. We had a great frozen pizza for lunch, and then played board games all afternoon. Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, etc.

We were going to go back out and take pictures of the sunset, but the cloud cover was too heavy to get anything fun. The Skyway makes a great spot for sunset pictures, because you have these two massive bridges all lit from behind, and we will go another night and get some pretty pictures of it. I don’t remember what we did for the rest of the day, but it was probably fairly lazy. I think we went to bed early because we were up before dawn, but I don’t really know.

So was it the best day ever? Probably not. It was however a pretty great day. Alan and I hadn’t had a day where we just hung out together in a long time, and it was really nice. We were both in good moods and we enjoyed just being around each other. It was certainly the best day of last week.