So, I bought a new book about Photoshop. I LOVE it! I'm learning all sorts of interesting things. It's called "the Photoshop Elements 8 book for digital photographers" by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski. It's awesome!
So, it turns out that we could take cameras to the circus, after we were told we couldn't. I had my crappy point and shoot with me just incase... and it turns out, it's a really crappy camera. I am not impressed.