th<\/sup> grade English class.\u00a0 The little trooper read the whole, 1200 page unabridged version, then showed up on the first day of school to find that his classmates had all read a variety of abridged editions, most between 300-500 pages long.\u00a0 His teacher was immensely impressed with his \u201cdepth of understanding\u201d and \u201cgrasp of characters\u201d on the reports and tests \u2013 you\u2019d hope so, considering he read twice as much of the book as all the other kids!\u00a0 Anyway, Leslie and her husband and two boys (now young adults, but not yet married) were flying to Kauai for a 2-week family vacation.\u00a0 When she found out that we\u2019d be there before, she asked about what sights were worth seeing, which beaches were good for snorkeling, and all sorts of other stuff.\u00a0 We had a great time.<\/p>\nOnce on the island, my parents picked us up from the airport.\u00a0 It was about 7pm there, but we felt like it was nearly midnight, and hadn\u2019t eaten anything on the flight.\u00a0 Mom & Dad wanted to do some grocery shopping, so Jim and I ate dinner at the Costco food court while we waited for them.\u00a0 I was exhausted by the time we reached the hotel, but I wanted to see my sisters and Jim wanted to take a late-night swim, so it was quite a while before we finally turned in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This was a long day, but well worth it!\u00a0 Jim went to work today, as usual, then came home and helped me load our luggage into the car.\u00a0 Our friend, Justin Bradley, drove us to the airport, and we made our flight just fine. Jim\u2019s seat was by the window, I was in the middle, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[26,271,257,256],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-cd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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This was a long day, but well worth it!\u00a0 Jim went to work today, as usual, then came home and helped me load our luggage into the car.\u00a0 Our friend, Justin Bradley, drove us to the airport, and we made our flight just fine.<\/p>\n