Still, it’s possible to have fun in the winter, and we have tried to take advantage of the last bit of snow and ice we’ll be seeing for a while. One day, the girls and I built two snowmen in the backyard, and had at least a 30 minute snowball fight. It was great fun. So fun that I was sore the next two days!

Later, we went “ice skating” on the frozen patch of ice in my grandparents’ driveway. The girls loved it, and we’re planning on going to a real ice rink next week. Here are some pictures and videos of our fun. (Note: The snowmen looked better on day 1. I didn’t take the pictures until the next day).

Click the HD and maximize buttons in the corner of the video to see it in full quality.

Camera Downgrade

By the way, we recently downgraded our video camera. We sold our Canon HG10, which took amazing Blue-Ray quality videos (1080p). Awesome camera, and we loved it. However, we have never had a blue-ray capable screen, nor a blue-ray burner, and it takes a lot of space and power to store and process that high quality of video. The camera is also kind of big to carry around, and we thought it might be a theft magnet in Costa Rica. And we don’t really want to look like tourists lugging a camera around our shoulder.

So we sold it and bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1. It’s a point & shoot camera, but it also takes HD video at 720p with a 5x optical zoom lens. It’s also waterproof, shockproof, and dust proof. And it’s small enough to fit in my pocket! The video and photos in this post were taken with the new camera. The videos definitely aren’t as nice as the HG-10, but good enough. And as we want to travel light, I’ll take the small size over the quality for now.

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