{"id":12747,"date":"2009-04-03T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12747"},"modified":"2011-08-02T02:10:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:10:19","slug":"a-much-needed-vacay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/a-much-needed-vacay\/","title":{"rendered":"A Much Needed Vacay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, Vienna and Ethan escorted Lee and I to San Antonio for a much needed vacation. We had a great time. My only complaint is that it was too short. Needless to say, after Ethan and Vienna discussed the pros and cons of such a trip with us we gave into their requests of going again next month. We stayed on the Riverwalk which is my<em> favorite thing<\/em> in San Antonio <span style=\"font-size:85%;\">(besides the shopping and feeding the dolphins at SeaWorld).<\/span> I <strong>love<\/strong> a good hotel. I think they are so fun. That night we just stayed in the hotel and watched Disney movies all together. It was delightful!<br \/><embed pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flewis.loralee%2Falbumid%2F5320469374010680129%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>The following day, we hit SeaWorld! The kids started out SeaWorld like this&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/SdYYVamBzuI\/AAAAAAAACSA\/ISUz9X1TcFs\/s1600-h\/Untitled-51.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320466765979963106\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/SdYYVamBzuI\/AAAAAAAACSA\/ISUz9X1TcFs\/s400\/Untitled-51.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And ended SeaWorld like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/SdYXwjMw2fI\/AAAAAAAACQE\/a1O8bTJ-H2U\/s1600-h\/Untitled-142.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320466132634753522\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/SdYXwjMw2fI\/AAAAAAAACQE\/a1O8bTJ-H2U\/s400\/Untitled-142.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SeaWorld is definitely underrated in my book. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In between shows, I sat the kiddos on a wall to take photos where they ended up creating their very own little show for SeaWorld guests. We soon had quite the large audience around them who kept telling Lee and I how beautiful our children were and how they should both be models. We, of course, quickly agreed and let it all go to our heads as usual. Here&#8217;s some photos from their SeaWorld &#8216;show&#8217;. They don&#8217;t capture the extent of it, but I am sure you can imagine.<br \/><embed pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flewis.loralee%2Falbumid%2F5320465245220507921%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss\"><\/embed><br \/>Here are a few more SeaWorld photos for the &#8220;Nanas&#8221; of our short vacay!<br \/><embed pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flewis.loralee%2Falbumid%2F5320475999721513025%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, Vienna and Ethan escorted Lee and I to San Antonio for a much needed vacation. We had a great time. My only complaint is that it was too short. Needless to say, after Ethan and Vienna discussed the pros and cons of such a trip with us we gave into their requests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption-catharsis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}