{"id":792,"date":"2008-12-08T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=792"},"modified":"2025-04-01T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:25:50","slug":"aloha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/aloha\/","title":{"rendered":"aloha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the blog silence; Dave and I have just got back from our vacation in Hawaii! It was long overdue, and it was wonderful. It was a bit of a shock when we got back home though; going from this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/hawaii.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaii\" \/><\/p>\n<p>to this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/home_snow.jpg\" alt=\"looks like winter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Winter really hit while we were away. And our snowblower is refusing to start up&#8230; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Nothing much craft-related to report; I crocheted half a sock on the flights to Hawaii, but was too exhausted on the way back to finish it. We didn&#8217;t really do much shopping there either, but I did manage to pick up some locally-crafted jewellery from a Farmers&#8217; Market, some fabric and a book on how to make crocheted leis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/hawaiistuff.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaii\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Those polymer clay flowers are just begging me to try to replicate them!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Really, we went to see the local nature and wildlife, and we saw plenty of that &#8211; stunning scenery, beautiful exotic plants and all sorts of interesting birds and animals. I won&#8217;t go into long-winded details here, but my holiday journal and photos of all the amazing things we saw will all be online if you&#8217;d like to live it vicariously through me. I&#8217;m still working on the write-ups for the last couple of days &#8211; check back there soon if you want to see the rest of the trip&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfcenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/archive\/photoblog\/albums\/hawaii%202008%20pics\/day1\/thumb_P1120522.JPG\" alt=\"null\" \/> \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/archive\/photoblog\/albums\/hawaii%202008%20pics\/day5\/thumb_P1130143.JPG\" alt=\"null\" \/> \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/archive\/photoblog\/albums\/hawaii%202008%20pics\/day4\/thumb_P1130084.JPG\" alt=\"null\" \/> \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/archive\/photoblog\/albums\/hawaii%202008%20pics\/day3\/thumb_P1120905.JPG\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m refreshed and inspired and now I can&#8217;t wait to get back into making stuff, once I&#8217;ve finished sorting through the rest of the holiday pics. We had a wonderful time, but it&#8217;s good to be back home. Aloha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the blog silence; Dave and I have just got back from our vacation in Hawaii! It was long overdue, and it was wonderful. It was a bit of a shock when we got back home though; going from this: to this: Winter really hit while we were away. And our snowblower is refusing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24571,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/24571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}