Memories

[Rogillio]

How do you preserve the memories of your cruise? Scrapbook? Digital pictures? On-line album? Trip report?

After each of our vacations we have 3 ways we capture the memories.

Trip Report. My wife and I co-author a trip report following each of our vacation adventures. We intermingle her perspective and mine (we use different fonts so you can tell who is talking) and chronicle the entire vacation. My wife will keep notes on the trip so we can add details such as names of people and places, exchange rates, etc.

Photos. Each of the 4 Rogillio’s have a digital camera. We all have a preferences for what we think is a photo op. After the trip, I will compile a “best of” folder with hundreds of the best photos and video snippets.

Cost file. I also keep an Excel file of the costs for the trip. I start this spread when we are planning and then change projected to actual and eventually end up with a grand total. It’s fun to look at a vacation we took 10 years ago and compare prices and what we spend our money on.

~Mike

 

[SeaSpray]

I have my own web site, so I create a page (or several) for each of our vacations. I choose my favorite pictures, and add commentary. (See link below ) I don't do an actual trip report, but I usually will post a review when we get home, and the comments that I write on my page serve as a review of sorts. DH and I each have a digital camera, and I use pictures from both cameras.

I also choose 1 or 2 really nice professional photos to put in a frame for the living room or family room. Some of them are "posed" and some are more action shots or the shots against the white background.

Also, on our first Disney cruise we had the 3D crystal cubes created. I LOVE those; they're in the living room and I still turn them on most evenings as it starts to get dark.

Does anyone know if they still do these???


I wish I was a scrapbooker! I've seen some really unique and creative pages.

Mike, your "costs" Excel file sounds interesting... We should've started doing that years ago!! lol

 

[Cerberus9]

If it's a *really* good vacation, then the mug shots, court appearances, and legal fees ensure that I remember it for years to come!

 

[clarefb]

If it's a *really* good vacation, then the mug shots, court appearances, and legal fees ensure that I remember it for years to come!

That's the kind of trip I need

 

[SeaSpray]

If it's a *really* good vacation, then the mug shots, court appearances, and legal fees ensure that I remember it for years to come!

 

[gatorgirl98]

I did a Shutterfly Photobook of our recent cruise........

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2758832

 

[lauriegs]

I do digital scrapbooking, and keep a journal while on vacation to remember details... in fact, I just finished a 34 page 12x12 album of our first disney cruise from last summer, and can't wait to see the finished product when Creative Memories prints and ships it to me!

 

[tvguy]

We might take a few pictures, and maybe buy a family portrait, but I am sitting here looking at a dozen photo albums, and 100 video tapes of vacations we have taken in just the last 24 years since our son was born, and shake my head. Other than when we came right back from the trips, we have never looked at the tapes again, and nearly the same with the photo albums.

 

[Rogillio]

We might take a few pictures, and maybe buy a family portrait, but I am sitting here looking at a dozen photo albums, and 100 video tapes of vacations we have taken in just the last 24 years since our son was born, and shake my head. Other than when we came right back from the trips, we have never looked at the tapes again, and nearly the same with the photo albums.

I found this to be true of our home movies. When the kids were young we had big honking VHS cameras that recorded directly to a VHS tape! Then we got the mini-VHS and eventually went digital. A couple of years ago I bought a machine to tranfer all the VHS tapes to DVDs...and realized we had NEVER seen much of the footage we had taken. Even now, we've not watched much of what we've taken.

But digital pictures are viewed almost all the time! We use the Windows random picture viewer screen saver to randomly select one of the 40,000 digital pictures we have from our numerous adventures. I also have a digital picture frame at work that puts up random pix every 10 seconds. When I'm on a long plane ride for work I will open my laptop and browse some of out family vacations and remind myself that the reason I'm sitting on a cramped plane for 6 hrs is to make some coin so we can make more memories.

One more thought RE the videos. Most all cameras now take video and I have found those video snippets much more enjoyable than much of the home videos we shot....especially when we set up the tripod to film the entire 30 minutes of my daughter's second birthday! LOL

 

[SeaSpray]

I found this to be true of our home movies. When the kids were young we had big honking VHS cameras that recorded directly to a VHS tape! Then we got the mini-VHS and eventually went digital. A couple of years ago I bought a machine to tranfer all the VHS tapes to DVDs...and realized we had NEVER seen much of the footage we had taken. Even now, we've not watched much of what we've taken.

But digital pictures are viewed almost all the time! We use the Windows random picture viewer screen saver to randomly select one of the 40,000 digital pictures we have from our numerous adventures. I also have a digital picture frame at work that puts up random pix every 10 seconds. When I'm on a long plane ride for work I will open my laptop and browse some of out family vacations and remind myself that the reason I'm sitting on a cramped plane for 6 hrs is to make some coin so we can make more memories.

One more thought RE the videos. Most all cameras now take video and I have found those video snippets much more enjoyable than much of the home videos we shot....especially when we set up the tripod to film the entire 30 minutes of my daughter's second birthday! LOL

I forgot to mention our digital picture frames loaded with pictures of vacations from the past 14 years! DH and I each have one on our desks at work, and we have one in the family room. And I have the screen saver that scrolls through your pictures, although I haven't used my desktop in a long time, since getting my laptop a couple of years ago.

There really are good ways these days of being able to view your vacation pics without having to open up a photo album.