[BlogEntry] I look like a tourist, take my money

So, we just got back from a week's vacation down the Cape. During our one rainy day we (my wife, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, and three children) decided to take in a harbor cruise. We're like the second family in line to get on board, and as we're going across the ramp we realize that there's a photographer taking group shots. Having done the Odyssey Mother's Day brunch cruise every year for the last five years, we know the drill – take a family shot, then sell it at the end of the cruise. Well we've only got half the family with us, it's raining on us, and we'd like to get a good seat. We're only second in line anyway, but the family in front of us has like 12 people and it's a small boat.

So we try to sneak past them and go onto the boat. "Please, wait," says the photographer in heavy Russian.

Fine. We wait. We get our picture taken. I don't bother smiling, since I know we're not buying the picture. I mutter something to him about wasting our time and his film by making us do that.

You see what's coming, right? Anybody that knows my family does.

The cruise goes fine, it's rainy and cold but it's something to do with the kids on a Friday afternoon before lunch. As we're nearing the end, the photographer comes over and hands my mother in law the picture. "Ooooo, I like that, that came out good!" she says. She shows it to my wife who agrees. "How much?" she asks.

"Ten dollars," says the photographer.

We bought two.