{"id":1992,"date":"2010-06-15T22:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T22:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2010-06-17T04:47:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T04:47:59","slug":"goodbye-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/goodbye-california-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Departure day. \u00a0We woke up around 6am, ran around a little like headless chicken, but somehow managed to pack the car and be at the airport well before the departure of our flight. \u00a0Embarrassingly, we didn&#8217;t get a family photo of our gracious hosts, Sarah and Augusto, mostly because of the headless-chicken thing. \u00a0Jason woke up just in time for our departure so we got to wave him and his cheeky grin goodbye. \u00a0 Yes, sniffles. \u00a0Bucket-loads of sniffles.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1986\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1986\" title=\"IMG_7016\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7016.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7016-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a cafe at the airport, having gone through security with an obscene amount of hand-luggage.  JetBlue flies out of the International Terminal at San Francisco, so the food was a wee-bit more upscale than what is usually available at the domestic terminal, but I must stress the &#39;wee&#39;.<\/p><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1987\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1987\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1987\" title=\"IMG_7018\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7018.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7018-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Cup!  World Cup!  World Cup!  Did I mention it is World Cup time?  This must mean Finnur and I have &#39;been together&#39; for 4n years, where n is an integer (currently n=4).<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1988\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1988\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1988\" title=\"IMG_7019\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7019.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7019-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our flight was delayed by about 40 minutes.  To pass the time, Finnur followed Bjarki up and down the escalators, again, and again, and again, and again...<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The flight was uneventful. \u00a0Finnur and Bjarki sat behind me and Anna so Finnur didn&#8217;t have to worry about Bjarki kicking the seat in front of him or playing with the tray-table (this always stresses me out to no end). \u00a0They managed to fall asleep for a couple of hours, but Anna watched a fair bit of television (my screen was broken) in between a bit of arts and crafts and reading.<\/p>\n<p>When we landed in New York we took a taxi to Manhattan, threw our bags into our room and headed out to dinner next door at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/long-grain-new-york\">really nice Thai place<\/a> (it is possible that we were just really hungry, but that was the best chicken satay I&#8217;ve had in recent memory). \u00a0Then it was time for bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departure day. \u00a0We woke up around 6am, ran around a little like headless chicken, but somehow managed to pack the car and be at the airport well before the departure of our flight. \u00a0Embarrassingly, we didn&#8217;t get a family photo of our gracious hosts, Sarah and Augusto, mostly because of the headless-chicken thing. \u00a0Jason woke up just in time for our departure so we got to wave him and his cheeky grin goodbye. \u00a0 Yes, sniffles. \u00a0Bucket-loads of sniffles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1986\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1986\" title=\"IMG_7016\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7016.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_7016-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a cafe at the airport, having gone through security with an obscene amount of hand-luggage.  JetBlue flies out of the International Terminal at San Francisco, so the food was a wee-bit more upscale than what is usually available at the domestic terminal, but I must stress the &#39;wee&#39;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/goodbye-california-2\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}