Happy 4th of July!

So here you go, our mini 48 hour vacation in South Beach…

Road trip to South Beach…

Amazing interior design…

Tri-fan. Raleigh robe. Quasi-straightened hair.

The restaurant. And I would like those cool hanging things for our yard. Amen.

The view from the Penthouse. Not that we snuck up there. But if we did, these would be the photos we’d have taken…

Earlier this week, out of nowhere Nate turned to me and said, “I don’t know how but we need to do whatever it takes to get to this place.” (Um… sell a kidney perhaps?) And with that, he turned the computer screen to show me an image of a bedroom suite underwater. Literally an arched, 360 degree aquarium view overhead. WHAT? Yeah, I know. Interwebs, meet the Maldives- little, Fiji-looking islands floating in the middle of the Indian Ocean. I’m not usually a tropical vacation kind of girl, since I was practically born and raised on the beach, but visiting islands like these has been on my bucket list since I first saw a photo of Fiji’s over-the-water style huts. The Conrad Maldives Rangali has one of the best ratings on tripadvisor I’ve ever seen and looks like something from one of those dream’s I fight to stay asleep for. I’d like one of those little huts on the water. Nate wants the aquarium view. I told Nate that we should go there for our first anniversary. I know… our first anniversary is about a year and a half away. You say overzealous, I say eager planning. ;)

Sources (clockwise): Sunset view from one of the suites | Just one part of the amazing coral all throughout the islands | A perfect vacation outfit from JCrew’s Turks and Caicos editorial shoot | More rooms over the water, yes please | Dusk in the room I’d like to stay in. Where do I sign?

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sources (clockwise): google maps | Plum Pretty Sugar | Your Cabin (remaining images)

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We are very excited to be going to Vegas this week to attend our first WPPI. WPPI is the annual international convention for wedding and portrait photographers and we’re going to be 2 of over 15,000 that descend upon the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino. During the day we’ll be visiting some of the platform classes, making the rounds on the tradeshow floor to meet the vendors we’ve been using, hopefully finding some awesome new stuff to offer our clients, eating way too much (so Nate has more stuff to review on his up and coming food blog), getting our own engagement photos shot by Jeff, and meeting as many people as we possibly can. And by night, well… let’s just say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Just kidding, we’ll be good. ;)

Yes I colored and threaded the map myself. And yes I forgot that I had yellow till about halfway through. ;)

Thank you to everyone who left me sweet and encouraging notes here and on Facebook when I opened up a bit to you all. I really didn’t expect the volume of notes you all took the time to write me and it meant more to me than you can know. Thank you.

For all of you who aren’t photographers or who are photographers that aren’t able to go to Vegas this yea we’ll be keeping up with everyone as best we can via Twitter so if you aren’t already, follow Nate here and follow Becka here.

If you’re a photographer and you want to meet up in person in Vegas, just send us a message on twitter or come up and say HI. I’m kind of an introvert so I’ll probably be attached to Nate’s hip most the time. And Nate is an extrovert so he’ll probably be bouncing all over the place at the speed of light. :) We want to meet as many people as humanly possible!

Our schedule so far for Vegas is tradeshow and platforms during the day and at night…

Sunday: Arrive, Photolovecat Happy Hour, Zumanity, J Sandifer Poker Tournament
Monday: Photoshoot with Jeff,  WPPI Pool Party
Tuesday: Pictage Party at Studio 54 & PIF Party
Wednesday: TBD
Thursday: leaving early in the morning :)

For clients, readers, and everyone else… thank you in advance for your patience as email and voicemail replies will be delayed until next week.

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