Carolina Araujo: Tampa Bay Wedding, Portrait, and Boudoir Photographer

A Case of the Mondays
Monday, June 9, 2008

If you've never seen Office Space, rent it now, hilarious! If you got into work today and realized you hated your job, just remember, it could be worse:

Posted byCarolina Araujo at 11:55 AM

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What Has Two Thumbs and The Best Girlfriends Ever?!?
Sunday, June 8, 2008

THIS GIRL!!!
So after making a huge fuss about the Sex and the City premiere for the past 6 months, it turns out I was out of town on the day I had been waiting for for so long. So I asked my girlfriends to make the ultimate sacrifice and wait 1 week to watch it with me. And guess what? They DID!! 13 of us painted the town red last night. We went for sushi at Samurai Blue (the best sushi in Tampa in my opinion), most of us had mandatory martinis, and then we walked over to the movie.

I've watched every single episode from day one, I own the DVDs and even a couple of books, and let me tell you...I was NOT disappointed. For me, the movie totally delivered. I was left wondering though, for someone who didn't follow the series, was it as great? The only thing I did not like was the new opening credits song (sorry Fergie), I wanted the original, but I guess that's just me being picky and for nostalgia's sake.

Thank you girls for waiting to watch the movie and coming out last night. All of you ROCK my SOCKS!

Nuvia, Ammie, Kym, Maria, Dorothy, ME!, Carolina, Preea, Sheila, Chrissie, Katie (not picture Ana Maria and Blanca :-()

Posted byCarolina Araujo at 3:03 PM

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Be Cool My Babies
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

I'm baaaaccckkk!!

Posted byCarolina Araujo at 8:29 AM

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Athens
Monday, June 2, 2008

Our last day of vacation. Woe is me. Actually, I take that back. Our vacation was timed perfectly. I'm ready to go home tomorrow and see my Baby Bailey, my family..but most importantly, to catch up on LOST and watch the Sex and the City movie! After all, a girl's gotta have her priorities. Today was spent exploring the Acropolis, exploring gyro stands, and trying to shop for souvenir. I think our lack of sleep caught up to us around souvenir shopping time so we didn't get much done. At least we got some pictures!

Putting this collage together was interesting. Alex pretty much told me straight out that he didn't like the big center picture but I felt that it needed to go there. Athens is known for the Acropolis and it's history. What I didn't know about Athens was how much graffiti there was everywhere. It's almost a part of the city.

With the Parthenon behind us!!

Posted byCarolina Araujo at 2:18 PM

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Santorini: Day 4 (Conquering Skaros)

We just arrived in Athens. We took a 10 hour overnight ferry from Santorini where we had a cabin with bunk beds! Fun stuff..I always wanted bunk beds as a kid..as a married adult, not so much. I think we slept a total of 1 hour. Cabin with bed to rest = money not well spent. We did, however, play cards until we passed out.

Our last day in Santorini was a short one and left us time for only one last adventure. Yup, you guessed it, the search for my mystery church. I did some research on the handy internet and found out that Skaros Rock was at some point a thriving fortress and the capital of Santorini. There were actually around 200 houses on the rock. Between the 18th and 19th century, earthquake eruptions cause considerable damage and the only thing left standing on the rock is a small church, the Chapel of Agios Ioannis Apokefalistheis. Try saying that fast 5 times. So that's the history lesson for the day.

So here is our journey in pictures:

I took this picture from right outside our balcony from our hotel.

This was from our ferry on the way to Athens.

We're not playing around here...

And here she is in all her splendor:

This was really cool. To me it looks like a lion guarding over Santorini.

The sweet smell of victory. Thanks Skaros, for reminding me how out of shape I am.

Posted byCarolina Araujo at 12:27 AM

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Santorini: Days 2 & 3
Saturday, May 31, 2008

This trip has been amazing, so far, the next place has been better than the last. I know I said Mykonos was paradise, that would make Santorini SUPER Paradise. Is that even possible?

The last couple of days have been jam packed with things. I will preface this by saying that we are definitely keeping it vacation-style and waking up around 11 AM. The days are super long so we don't feel too bad. Yesterday we rented a car. Driving in Santorini is ~~crazy~~, ~~interesting~~, ~~only for maniacs~~ fun. We drove to the Black Beach, Red Beach and Oia. Last night we had an amazing dinner in Ammoudi Bay which consisted of octopus and stuffed eggplant. We've also had at least one gyro a day. I'm going to miss this place!

Today we did some souvenir shopping and then went in search of a church. Okay that sounds kind of weird since there is a church every 20 steps here. We were looking for the church that is in every picture of Santorini and the most famous church out here. Come to find out that the church is in THE most remote area possible. It's on the side of a cliff on a rock named Skaros, accessible only by a foot path, and not only that, but you can't even really see it until you get there. So, I talked Alex into taking the trek. We started our journey and there was absolutely no one else doing it. This was serious stuff...one wrong step and your swimming with the fishes. Literally. We went around the entire path until it ended..NOTHING. I was so disappointed. We made our way back and saw a couple coming from a tiny tiny narrow path below ours. We got curious and waited from them. In broken English, the German couple comfirmed that we took the wrong path and probably the hardest path. They were at the church so at least we know that it exists. We, and by that I mean me, were beat from the climb and the sun was merciless. So we are going to try again tomorrow. I know, we're crazy, but I can't leave here without a picture of that church! I'm on a mission now. I'll post pictures of Skaros and the church tomorrow (hopefully!)

In the meantime, here's a little of what we've done the last couple of days: