{"id":758,"date":"2007-01-13T22:28:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T03:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/13\/meet-me-in-st-louis-louis\/"},"modified":"2007-01-13T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T03:28:27","slug":"meet-me-in-st-louis-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Meet me in St. Louis, Louis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, recently Gene has been hopped up about wanting to visit St. Louis, MO. It was a real puzzle to me. Why St. Louis? It’s around 16 hours away and I wasn’t especially excited about taking vacation time to go there. And for some reason, he was insistent upon visiting over one specific time period (April 12-15). He swore up and down it was because it was such a neat city, and it may well be, but, still? Missouri, when we haven’t even been to the big city 3 hours away? Or another long weekend in Washington DC? Or, mmm, a cruise?<\/p>\n

You seriously think the last vacation we’ll take needs to be to MISSOURI??? (For the record, we haven’t taken a fun vacation* in many moons and I’d sure like to cram one more in)<\/p>\n

Luckily,\u00a0my friend Julie\u00a0and I were IMing through Gmail and I told her about this whole thing and how I suspected something was odd. I said that I figured it was a Star Wars convention, a Star Trek convention, a Stargate convention, or a National Rifle Association convention.<\/p>\n

Hmm. Called it!<\/a><\/p>\n

(Ah, Gene, you scurvy bugger…. hee hee!)<\/p>\n

“How did you find out?”<\/p>\n

“I have the INTERNET in front of me nearly all day every day. Did you think I couldn’t surf over there and type ‘convention’ into their search engine?”<\/p>\n

Problem kinda solved. If Gene goes, he’ll take his brother with instead of me. Yippee!<\/p>\n

And, that is how I scored my girls weekend in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Say it with me.<\/p>\n

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

*<\/em><\/strong> fun vacation = Gene\u00a0plus Elaine\u00a0minus The Boy\u00a0plus Drink of the Day\u00a0plus Fancy hotel room\u00a0minus any family (his or mine)<\/p>\n

(Yes, I know, I’m a total ass. Yes, I know, what do I plan to do about vacations after Plan B? Well, after Plan B there will be no more vacations ever so now is the time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, recently Gene has been hopped up about wanting to visit St. Louis, MO. It was a real puzzle to me. Why St. Louis? It’s around 16 hours away and I wasn’t especially excited about taking vacation time to go there. And for some reason, he was insistent upon visiting over one specific time period…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-dreaming","category-elsewhere-on-the-internet","category-sweet-things-my-husband-has-done"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}