{"id":6992,"date":"2023-04-02T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2023-04-02T16:47:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T20:47:48","slug":"spring-fling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6992","title":{"rendered":"Spring Fling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Big hit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

John\u2019s balloon animal skills were a huge hit at yesterday\u2019s Spring Fling at the Ambassador\u2019s residence! It was a lot of fun with egg hunts, egg races, and sack races for all age groups. Lots of happy kids! The weather was just flat-out gorgeous – we rode our bikes to the event, and it seemed everyone was outside enjoying the sunshine and great temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Egg hunt around the fountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, Lea, Kat, and I met for happy hour near the embassy at a new sidewalk cafe – good fun catching up on gossip and discovering our mutual love for Scrabble. Imagine our surprise when Lea came across a Scrabble dictionary stuck in a storeroom at work later in the week! It\u2019s kismet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fate!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lea and I went to lunch at a groovy vegetarian restaurant today with a lovely outdoor seating area. Luckily we beat the rain that started not long after we left. Speaking of vegetables, look at these yummy roasted veggies that Pilar made for us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rest of the week was pretty routine. The Embassy is in full swing for evaluation season; I\u2019m mercifully done with my own, but John\u2019s been working on the weekends trying to get his all done. I still have one to write for an employee, and I\u2019ve been mentoring some folks and helping with theirs, as well. They can really be a stressor if you let them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John and I were happy that \u201cSuccession\u201d has returned for its final season, and we\u2019re keeping up with both \u201cTed Lasso\u201d and the Korean \u201cLittle Women.\u201d I finished Barbara Kingsolver\u2019s \u201cDemon Copperhead\u201d (ugh) and started on \u201cI Have Questions for You,\u201d a mystery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were sick to see the horrible tornadoes in Little Rock this week. It seems our friends are all OK as far as we have heard, but it will sure be a long recovery for the city. Just terrible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abandoned building as seen from grocery store parking deck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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John\u2019s balloon animal skills were a huge hit at yesterday\u2019s Spring Fling at the Ambassador\u2019s residence! It was a lot of fun with egg hunts, egg races, and sack races for all age groups. Lots of happy kids! The weather was just flat-out gorgeous – we rode our bikes to the event, and it seemed […]<\/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":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7001,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}