{"id":313,"date":"2008-08-28T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-08-28T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T04:24:13","slug":"what-a-way-to-end-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"What a way to end the summer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-314    aligncenter\" title=\"dumbo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dumbo-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hi all!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for dropping in!\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a super memorable week around here.\u00a0 On Monday evening we returned home from Florida&#8230;.we visited DISNEY WORLD for the first time!\u00a0 I went with my parents and the kids, and we stayed in a wonderful Armed Forces resort, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadesofgreen.org\/home.html\">Shades of Green<\/a>.\u00a0 I can now understand what all of the Disney hype is about:\u00a0 so many over-the-top attractions (and lines), non stop entertainment, more to see and do than possible, and great customer service from the Disney staff.\u00a0 The weather extremes from total downpour to heat and humidity didn&#8217;t spoil the fun.\u00a0\u00a0 By the end of our trip the kids were really getting in to the Disney pin trading phenomenon as well.\u00a0 I would like to return again very soon.\u00a0 Here are a few pictures:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/disney-castle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-315      aligncenter\" title=\"disney-castle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/disney-castle-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/epcot-center-08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-316    aligncenter\" title=\"epcot-center-08\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/epcot-center-08-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-317  aligncenter\" title=\"chandler-and-walle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/chandler-and-walle-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/disney-castle-at-night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-324  aligncenter\" title=\"disney-castle-at-night\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/disney-castle-at-night-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once we returned from our trip, we had to hit the ground running.\u00a0 Summer came to an abrupt end with school starting right away for my older two.\u00a0 Meanwhile, my youngest turned 4 and we celebrated his birthday with a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.restonzoo.com\/\">Reston Petting Zoo <\/a>and another pirate party celebration.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_318\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/1st-day-of-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-318\" title=\"1st-day-of-school\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/1st-day-of-school-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"First Day of School\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Day of School<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_319\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/birthday-boy-aug-2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-319\" title=\"birthday-boy-aug-2008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/birthday-boy-aug-2008-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"Happy little birthday boy!\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy little birthday boy!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hard to believe we started the week walking around Animal Kingdom and we&#8217;re ending it packing lunches and back to our loooong commute!\u00a0 What a week to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Hi all! Thank you for dropping in!\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a super memorable week around here.\u00a0 On Monday evening we returned home from Florida&#8230;.we visited DISNEY WORLD for the first time!\u00a0 I went with my parents and the kids, and we stayed in a wonderful Armed Forces resort, Shades of Green.\u00a0 I can now understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}