{"id":168,"date":"2008-06-01T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=168"},"modified":"2008-06-01T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T10:00:12","slug":"california-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"California &#8211; Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started a post about our vacation about 4 times now&#8230; and I just keep deleting it and starting over. The trip was too long to try to give you a play-by-play, and we took far too many pictures to be able to just pelt you with those. So, after much contemplation (and realizing that the longer I wait the further away it will be from when we actually went on vacation) I&#8217;ve decided to simply post pictures and captions. I have to limit myself to 3-5 images per day though&#8230; or I&#8217;ll get carried away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just do one vacation day per post. That way you can experience our vacation, as we did, one day at a time.<br \/>\n(Besides, it makes coming up with topics for the next 10 days pretty easy. :))<br \/>\nBefore I begin, we just want to shout a big &#8220;thanks&#8221; to Jared for caring for our house and our dog while we were away. Thanks Jared!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day One (Wednesday, May 7th)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the airport. I had a sinus headache and watery eyes. Ended up spending way too much for water and pills at the airport. Bridget got crackers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06.01_Cali1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first flight. Took off at 8:53p.m. from SLC to Phoenix.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06.01_Cali2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Layover in Phoenix. Bridget made friends with a random little girl. They shared toys. Our flight was delayed for an hour, so she had lots of time to play. The kid didn&#8217;t fall asleep until half-way through the second flight.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06.01_Cali3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our plane finally landed a little after midnight (California time), and we made it to our first hotel at 1:00a.m. We crashed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06.01_Cali4.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started a post about our vacation about 4 times now&#8230; and I just keep deleting it and starting over. The trip was too long to try to give you a play-by-play, and we took far too many pictures to be able to just pelt you with those. So, after much contemplation (and realizing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6,8,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-bridget","category-dave","category-family-life","category-random","category-tina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}