Near Death Experience!

This is one of those times where I just kept thinking about the quote "you don't know what you have until it's gone."

My camera and I have had a love/hate relationship since the beginning. It's a great camera because it's small, compact, really easy to use and digital. But, the picture quality is not always up to it's highest, especially when I know what's out there. But yesterday at the swimming pool, while I was taking my usual ridiculous amount of pictures, it was splashed with water while I was saving my son from drowning. I didn't think much of it, it was just a little water, my watch has endured a thousand times worse. But when I went to turn it back on, there was nothing! I tried again, and again, but it was dead. There was probably a moment of genuine shock while I tried to determine what was worse, that my daily companion had just totally bit the dust, or that there were at least one hundred pictures of memories that I wasn't getting back. My friends suggested I wait and let it dry out and maybe it would work again in a few hours. A few hours went by and nothing.

It wasn't until we were halfway home and parked at a gas station that I thought I would give it one more try. I flipped the cover back and heard the sweetest sound I'd heard all day, the beeps of my camera turning on. I gasped loud enough to wake up my grouchy, heat exhausted kids, but I can't even tell you the relief I felt knowing that my camera had survived. I don't think I will ever take that thing for granted again!