For those of you that wondered if I died, I didn’t. I’ve been busier than usual (which is saying something), and I’ve also been doing more fun activities than normal (which I often pass up because of previously mentioned busy-ness). )

Here’s a small selection of what I’ve been up to lately.

Flying in a new friend’s small airplane:

Another friend’s 50th birthday party:

Racing somewhat high-speed go carts:

Shopping for and purchasing an electric guitar (not this one):

Riding the Seattle Ducks (amphibious city tour):

Getting very foreign currency as change at McDonalds:

Rollerblading with my favorite middle sister:

And… riding to the top of the Seattle Space Needle for dinner and pictures

I love having a camera phone (for the first time in quite a while), but I’ll bet you can tell the difference between the pics I got with that and the ones I got with my DSLR… )

What have you been doing lately? ) Oh, and does anybody recognize what country that coin is from? I’m curious.