{"id":5352,"date":"2018-08-12T07:53:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T11:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2018-08-12T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T23:54:07","slug":"kayaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5352","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5356\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5356\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/343AABAB-7281-4217-A7B3-D668C5017448-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/343AABAB-7281-4217-A7B3-D668C5017448-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/343AABAB-7281-4217-A7B3-D668C5017448-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/343AABAB-7281-4217-A7B3-D668C5017448.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Wendy and John<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John and I went kayaking yesterday with our friends Wendy and Nick &#8211; Wendy was working in Tijuana while I was in Guadalajara and we became friends. Their subdivision in Falls Church has a lake, and they invited us for a morning kayaking outing &#8211; it was really fun. The lake was calm, and we saw turtles, great blue herons, a muskrat (!), a little green heron, and a snake! Really fun! Afterward we had lunch at Mad Fox in downtown Falls Church.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, my old friend Lee Ivory from Hot Springs met me downtown for lunch at Tonic &#8211; we\u2019ve been trying to get together since I arrived last year, and it finally happened! We had a great time catching up &#8211; the last time I saw him was in 2010. Time flies!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5355\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5355\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FFDB359A-7EAA-4FD7-BE93-021C15B7EE35-300x287.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FFDB359A-7EAA-4FD7-BE93-021C15B7EE35-300x287.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FFDB359A-7EAA-4FD7-BE93-021C15B7EE35-768x734.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FFDB359A-7EAA-4FD7-BE93-021C15B7EE35-1024x978.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Lee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last Sunday John and I went to Rock Creek Tennis Center to watch the finals of the Citi Open Tennis tournament. We saw Zverev win the men\u2019s title, and Kuznetsova for the women\u2019s. Zverev is #3 in the world, and Kuznetsova is a former Grand Slam winner (French and U.S. Open) &#8211; good tennis!<\/p>\n<p>Friday I took the day off and thoroughly enjoyed myself. I went to Macy\u2019s and did some sale shopping, and got my nails done. I felt like a lady of leisure!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5354\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5354\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1756C14B-5630-4722-87C3-37CD6CF2EC8D-e1534074779950-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1756C14B-5630-4722-87C3-37CD6CF2EC8D-e1534074779950-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1756C14B-5630-4722-87C3-37CD6CF2EC8D-e1534074779950-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full moon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John and I went kayaking yesterday with our friends Wendy and Nick &#8211; Wendy was working in Tijuana while I was in Guadalajara and we became friends. Their subdivision in Falls Church has a lake, and they invited us for a morning kayaking outing &#8211; it was really fun. The lake was calm, and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}