Life of Wry

….Peter and Jocelyn set up an Jugo de Naranja (orange juice) stand on a beach in Akumal, Yucatan, Mexico.

They sure look serious.

This just makes me ache with love.

I came upon these pictures in a funny way:

The four Cavins-O’Hanleighs and the three of us went to Mexico over the Thanksgiving holiday in 2008. Peter and Jocelyn were both 10, Kalea was about 4. P&J were both students in the Spanish Immersion program and, as the week went on, grew more comfortable using their Spanish with the various folks we’d come across in our travels and activities. Many stories there. We had a great holiday in Mexico!

On our trip home, we learned that the second leg of our flight had been canceled and we’d have to spend the night in Guadalajara. So we checked into a hotel and then wandered downtown for lunch. While sitting at an outdoor table, and unbeknownst to us in the moment, two “diners” made off with my camera, which I’d hung over the back of my chair (back in the days when I used a real 35mm camera). I discovered it as we were standing up to leave at the end of our lunch. By then, too late.

Well, this meant I lost the millions of photos I’d taken during the week.. sure to have been fantastic photos! I was absolutely crushed. (Still haven’t gotten over it, to tell you the truth.)

The only photos we have from the trip, therefore, are 45 photos either Bill or Sabrina took. They shared them with me back in 2008 and I uploaded them to Flickr, as that was where I used to keep special photo sets.

Flickr sent me a notice a couple days ago telling me that since I recently changed my account from Pro to not Pro, I only get to store 1000 photos on the site, and so the rest of my photos — the oldest ones — (some 3000) would be discarded. In looking over those 3000 soon-to-be-discarded old photos, I discovered this set of Mexico vacay shots. They are probably the only Flickr photos I don’t have copies of in the extensive archive on my laptop (currently about 100,000 photos), as the rest of my Flickr photos are photos I’ve personally taken over the course of my digital years (2002-present) and exist in my laptop, in my phone and in the cloud.

Anyway.. I was able to transfer Bill and Sabrina’s 45 Mexico shots from Flickr to my master archive (yay!!) and these two photos caught my eye.