camera challenge{d}: the upgrade

i have been having so much fun learning how to use my point and shoot camera, hoping that one day i would be able to get a better camera. i knew it would not be soon. but that gave me more time to learn on my little point and shoot. last week i got a package in the mail. it had no return address on it, it was a mystery to me why i would have received this package. this camera was inside. looking up at me. smiling. i burst into tears. dear friends from far away had recently upgraded their camera, and they chose to bless me with their "old" one. it's a canon rebel xti. i'm in love with my new camera. i've already learned a lot on it, with hopes of learning so much more. the next thing i need to figure out is how to get the pictures off of it and into my computer. then, of course, the seamstress in me is dying to make a cute strap cover! (do real photographers consider this a priority?)