I gave Georg a Swatch for his birthday. It has pictures of dinoaur bones on the band, which allegedly glow in the dark though we haven't tried it out yet. I thought he would more enjoy a "cute" Swatch than one of the sporty ones with eighteen different chrono functions and so forth. I was impressed with the variety of Swatches available. There are 350 for sale on their website! Later I found a site called Squiggly.com with much better prices. They even sell refurbished Swatches for under $20! Unfortunately they are in the Netherlands so fast shipping to the US is impossible.
It came in this insanely cool packaging. The watch arrived inside a plastic dinosaur. You pull the dinosaur's tail to open its mouth, revealing the watch on its tongue. I had no idea it would come like that! I thought it would just be in a box. So I guess the dinosaur was like a bonus gift.
It was so funny when Georg opened the package. He was looking at it with total confusion, like he was thinking "um, you got me a plastic dinosaur for my birthday? okay, now tell me the rest?" I thought about pretending the dinosaur was his present, but that would be mean. I told him to pull on the tail right away, so he wasn't kept in suspense.
The photos of the watch came out really well I think. This new camera is great at close-ups! I wasn't even using the "manual mode," these were the automatic settings. I don't have a tripod so I improvised by setting the camera on a pillar candle. I read that they are now selling a "ring light" that attaches to the lens for macro photography. It's supposed to make lighting extreme close ups much easier. I want one!
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