A Digital Video Camera is a Must on Vacation

My brother convinced me to buy a digital video camera a few years ago to take with me on vacation. I had always taken my regular digital camera along with me, but had wondered about capturing some of the moments live so that we could watch them as a family for years to come. Now that I have done it, I will never go on vacation without one again.

The first place we took the digital video camera to was New York City. We have family up there, and I wanted to show my family back home all of the sights and sounds of The Big Apple. Sure enough, we captured things on tape that would just not have been the same with a camera, such as my daughter looking at the Statue of Liberty for about three minutes. She just kept looking up at the monument and would not divert her gaze, because she was so impressed. It was the cutest thing ever.

The next year, we went down to New Orleans, and sure enough, we got a number of memorable moments on the digital video camera that we still watch. My son rode on a carriage ride and asked to get off to stand next to a man dressed up like Uncle Sam, who was just standing in one spot, not moving, looking like he was frozen in time. It does not sound very remarkable, but if you were there, you would have appreciated it. I also got to film both of my children trying crawfish for the first time. They both were hesitant at first, but gave it a shot and really ended up liking it.

We ended up going to a family reunion the next year in Maryland. We knew that we had to take the digital video camera on that trip because there would be so many opportunities to film. I got to watch my daughter swim around with little floats at the beach. I filmed my son jumping off a diving platform into the Chesapeake Bay, much to my wife's horror, and I got to film my wife dance with her father. It still brings a tear to her eye when she watches it.

The digital video camera has proven to be a must on any family vacation and something that I really wish I had bought a long time ago. It brings the memories that you have of a place to life and provides a visual account of the time you spent at each destination. I will always have one with me whenever I travel from now on, and guard the videos with my life!