{"id":9205,"date":"2015-12-30T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:51:16","slug":"holliday-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2015\/12\/30\/holliday-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Holliday Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the final recap of 2015:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Audrey celebrated her birthday at the end of November, and in addition to a birthday dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthschris.com\/\">Ruth Chris<\/a> I took her to a <a href=\"http:\/\/queenmary.com\/tours-exhibits\/attractions-night\/dining-with-the-spirits\/\">ghost tour aboard the Queen Mary<\/a>.  After a fancy dinner at the ship&#8217;s nicest restaurant we were led on a tour to every haunted spot from bow to stern, including the lower decks where POWs were held during WWII, the now off-limits and very fancy swimming pool, and the huge engine room, hearing stories of all manner of unfortunate events, past hauntings, and ghost cats.  Audrey enjoyed the creepiness, and I liked seeing the inner workings of one of the largest ships ever to ply the Atlantic.<\/li>\n<li>In between back-to-back work trips to San Antonio I co-hosted a caroling party, thus combining one of Audrey&#8217;s biggest joys in life (singing) with one of my biggest fears (singing).  Audrey&#8217;s professional singer-friends impressed the neighbors with their voices, and her mom brought a giant bowl of delicious meatballs so I got to impress everyone by consuming massive quantities of meatballs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/journal\/2015\/12\/28\/there-and-back-again\/\">SpaceX landed a rocket!!!<\/a>  I&#8217;m still pretty excited about that one.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to Christmas I got a text from Aaron saying that he &#8220;just broke all of the bones in my ankle&#8221;.  He later clarified that he is &#8220;still learning how to avoid trees when snowboarding&#8221; and that he didn&#8217;t hurt himself, instead &#8220;a tree hurt me&#8221;.  Upon arriving home for Christmas I found him with his leg in a cast propped up on the couch looking about as stir crazy as a person can be. Despite his lack of mobility Christmas was still fun &#8211; there were shenanigans on Aaron&#8217;s knee scooter, and Ma delivered a holiday turkey that again let me show off my food-devouring skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2015 was another good year in what has so far been a great life, and with 2016 starting with a scuba diving trip the crystal ball predicts that the undeserved good fortune just might continue on a bit longer.  Hopefully everyone reading had equally good years &#8211; best wishes for 2016!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Holliday Family Christmas\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/iphone\/2351-concord-holliday-family-christmas.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The Skipper is much, much better than he used to be at taking pictures.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the final recap of 2015: Audrey celebrated her birthday at the end of November, and in addition to a birthday dinner at Ruth Chris I took her to a ghost tour aboard the Queen Mary. After a fancy dinner at the ship&#8217;s nicest restaurant we were led on a tour to every haunted spot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2015\/12\/30\/holliday-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holliday Recap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,34,29,54],"class_list":["post-9205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-recap","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9205"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9355,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}