Geekery...

I have the iPhone and Mike has the iPod Touch. With these devices we have access to our email, internet, calculators, GPS, etc. And of course all of the cool and fun apps. You may remember how I mentioned that I used the Photo Booth and Hipstomatic apps to take those cool photos. So there are apps like that, and then there are games. Mike and I have become addicted to a few games. We both play City Story, and starting this morning, Empire story. I also play Farm Story and maintain 2 farms on both of our devices. Sad, I know. I have a lot more time during the day to play these games usually when I am feeding Rose, and a few quick checks during the day) so I am a bit further ahead then Mike. They are quite simple and only involve planting crops, maintaining contracts or selling items to make money. Then you can buy cool buildings and decorations and expand to make your farm/city/empire even sweeter! They are addictive because you don't have to devote very much time to it all at once. You also need to make friends in the game and help them to water crops or clean buildings. The object of each game is to reach level 75.

Here is my level 50 city:

Mike's empire at level 7:

And my farm at level 47:

Oh how I would love for you all to see it in it's full glory when the grapes were ripe and the red quinoa was in full bloom....

Every night before we turn out the lights in bed we have to check on our cities and farms and prepare them for the night by adding 8-12 hour contracts or crops that won't expire or wilt before the morning (although I can often tend to them in the middle of the night). We say things like "did you see my eco condos?", and "look at this sweet river". I'm not sure what is sadder...that, or the fact that you can spend big time money to buy special items, which at the end of the day are just virtual pictures. OR, the fact that we've discussed buying itunes gift certificates for each other for Christmas so we CAN buy these virtual non-existent items, for the mere pleasure of seeing cool things in our cities.