{"id":1061,"date":"2011-08-03T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2011-08-03T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T16:03:41","slug":"american-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"American Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my travels in the midwest, many of you told me I should update my blog with what I’m doing stateside. Here goes:<\/p>\n

Arrival in the US<\/strong>:\u00a0 spent a good share of time in Airport Limbo.\u00a0
\nTime spent in WY<\/strong>:\u00a0 hung out with the family, cooked\/baked up a storm (I think I might have missed it a little), purchased a new camera, camped in the mountains. (I also missed this!)
\nTraveled to SD<\/strong>:\u00a0 stayed with my godparents, Chris and Linda Schumacher, for a couple days.\u00a0 Geocaching with Chris and some much needed pinochle time, too!
\nTraveled to WI<\/strong>:\u00a0 stayed with friends, Paul and Meghan Kuckhahn (and little T).\u00a0 Had a great time catching up, being introduced to JW, losing at Clue, and just hanging out.
\nMore WI<\/strong>:\u00a0 stayed with friends, Collin and Sarah Mayer (K and E, too!).\u00a0 Had some much needed geek-out-music-app time and enjoyed delicious margaritas. (It was right around this time that I lost the AC in my car…conveniently, this was the hottest week in WI to date…and, yes, adding refrigerant to your own car is considered illegal in this state.\u00a0 Good thing Iowa understands my pain.
\nN. WI<\/strong>:\u00a0 stayed with friends, Sam and Darla Smith (with Rob and Lexie there too).\u00a0 Saw HP7 pt. 2 for the first time! Loved it!
\nMore N. WI<\/strong>:\u00a0 stayed with friends, Dane and Joanne Mattes (C and H, too).\u00a0 Great to catch up with these dear college friends. Saw HP7 pt. 2 for the 2nd time! \ud83d\ude42 Loved it again!
\nMore N. WI<\/strong>:\u00a0 more quality time spent with my niece and nephew, cooking, swimming, Wii dancing and other fun stuff.\u00a0 Miss them already.
\nBack to S. WI<\/strong>:\u00a0 visited other friends in the area, played trumpet for the synod convention opening service, general relaxation while visiting dearly missed people.\u00a0 I was able to attend a concert given by some of my lovely Chinese students in the Milwaukee area.\u00a0 It was great to see them and definitely re-energized me for China. \ud83d\ude42
\nTraveled to IA<\/strong>:\u00a0 stayed with friends, Craig and Gretchen Fiemeyer (A too).\u00a0 Fixed my car’s AC (because it’s not illegal in Iowa).\u00a0 Loved the catch up time with these guys!
\nTraveled to KS in sweet cold bliss<\/strong>:\u00a0 and this is where I am as I update.\u00a0 I’m staying with my awesome brother, Marc.\u00a0 We’re enjoying some good food and some crazy hot weather. (It was 111 yesterday.)\u00a0 We are going to see HP7 pt. 2 at 3D IMAX tonight! (yes, this will be the third time!)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Below are some pics from the summer so far. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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At the 4th of July Parade in Gillette. It was fun to be in the US for the 4th this year. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Just a bit of the baking that I did while staying at my parent's house. Everyone loved these monster cookies. <\/p><\/div>\n

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More baking. Red velvet cake with homemade whipped cream, blueberries and strawberries. They liked this one too! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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Meadowlark Lake in the Bighorn Mountains. <\/p><\/div>\n

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On our way to the trailhead we saw this guy. He didn't seem afraid. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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Part of the trail. Beautiful.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not-so-little-B. What a handsome guy!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Beautiful T. \ud83d\ude42 She makes me smile!<\/p><\/div>\n

I didn’t take too many pictures while in Wisconsin.\u00a0 My next update will come from China.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 “See” you later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During my travels in the midwest, many of you told me I should update my blog with what I’m doing stateside. Here goes: Arrival in the US:\u00a0 spent a good share of time in Airport Limbo.\u00a0 Time spent in WY:\u00a0 hung out with the family, cooked\/baked up a storm (I think I might have missed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}