My New Big Girl Camera

I am so excited! We've been discussing getting a higher quality camera for a little while now. I was wanting a more Big Girl camera that was manual and would have zoom attachments. We've been talking about getting it before Disneyland so we can practice with it before we go. Here is what I had: The Fuji S700 and I've always loved it. It's been a good sound camera but I've been desiring the manual style.

We've been looking at the Canon Rebel. We went shopping last night and they actually had a recent package deal on one of them. There were 2 different Rebels we were looking at and this was one of them. It was the only one that offered the package deal of an extra battery and a zoom lens. I was going to purchase a zoom in the future but when I saw the $350 price tag for the zoom I knew that would be awhile. So we went with the package deal. The downside is, since our video camera stopped working almost 2 yrs ago, I've been using the Fuji for all our videos-which works great. But the manual cameras do not have video, which I now understand why but didn't know about that before. That was one of my questions. So for now, I will be carrying both cameras around for the times that I need to video. Glad my old camera is light! Also got a new bag, gave us 20% off if we purchased it at the same time. Which I was going to do anyway.
So here is our new camera. I have a lot of reading and playing to do. I'm glad I have a sweet little subject to practice on.

and here is the extra zoom lens