{"id":16585,"date":"2015-09-28T08:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=16585"},"modified":"2015-09-29T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:29:10","slug":"vacation-part-2-thai-and-travel-and-porch-swings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2015\/20150928-16585.htm","title":{"rendered":"Vacation (Part 2): Thai and Travel and Porch Swings"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 6: Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday morning, Daniel dropped me off at church early to prepare the “opening” activity centers for the three year old Sunday School. We were learning about Noah, so I had a sticky wall rainbow and, by now, I can’t remember what else. Oh, but it’s coming back – pairs of animals to match and blocks to build an ark with.<\/p>\n

Daniel went back home to take care of our guests and to get Tirzah Mae ready for the service.<\/p>\n

After church, we went out to the land, where we inspected the then-current state of construction – at that point, the walls had been poured but the forms not yet removed. Timothy and I tramped around the perimeter so Tim could see our land more fully.<\/p>\n

Our family at the hole<\/p>\n

Our family in front of “the hole”<\/em><\/div>\n

From there, we went out for Thai at Chiang Mai Thai<\/a> (Oh my, so much going out to eat this vacation already!) As is our custom, we served Tirzah Mae from our own plates – in this case Green and Yellow curries. The older woman who served us kept exclaiming about “The baby!” “Eating Thai curry!” After expressing her astonishment to us, I heard her in the kitchen, expressing her astonishment there as well :-)<\/p>\n

Once home, Daniel and Joanna and Tim watched the very bloody The Untouchables<\/em>, about the attempt to put away Chicago mob-boss Al Capone. I<\/strong> squawked around like a chicken with my head cut off, doing endless loads of laundry and attempting to get us packed for our trip to Lincoln. <\/p>\n

When the movie was done, we “scared up” breakfast for dinner – caramel apple oven French toast I’d prepared earlier, as well as bacon and sausage and kiwi and whatever else I could find in the fridge that needed to be used up.<\/p>\n

Then, all four of us adults got busy getting the packing done and the house cleaned up so we could leave for Lincoln at a decent hour the next day!<\/p>\n

September 7: Day 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the usual scurry of last minute preparations for a trip, we took off – Daniel and I and Tirzah Mae in our gold Trailblazer, Tim and Joanna and their baby-on-the-inside in their blue Trailblazer (one of the fun parts of having a large family is occasionally accidentally matching!)<\/p>\n

Tim and Joanna on the world's largest porch swing<\/p>\n

Tim and Joanna on the World’s Largest Porch Swing<\/em><\/div>\n

We stopped at the world’s largest porch swing in Hebron, NE<\/a> where we took pictures and then took Tirzah Mae over to the playground. Tirzah Mae enjoyed her first swing ride (that is, she enjoyed<\/em> a swing for the first time, not that she rode<\/em> one for the first time.) She also went down a slide for the first time.<\/p>\n

Aunt Joanna helps Tirzah Mae get acquainted with the swing<\/p>\n

Aunt Joanna helps Tirzah Mae get acquainted with the swing<\/em><\/div>\n

Once we were done in Hebron, we wished Tim and Joanna good-bye and headed on toward my parents’ home in Lincoln.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 6: Day 2 Sunday morning, Daniel dropped me off at church early to prepare the “opening” activity centers for the three year old Sunday School. We were learning about Noah, so I had a sticky wall rainbow and, by now, I can’t remember what else. Oh, but it’s coming back – pairs of animals … Read more Vacation (Part 2): Thai and Travel and Porch Swings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[1489],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16617,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions\/16617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}