{"id":10145,"date":"2024-08-05T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=10145"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:57:50","slug":"2024-august-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2024\/08\/05\/2024-august-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 – August part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey there,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started off August without being sick. That was a nice accomplishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since we were all feeling better, we took the kids to see “Twisters” in the theater. We all enjoyed the movie as a family. Plus side, we now know of a cheap theater in the Portland area (sub $6 for tickets)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also took a trip over to Gramps to visit with him. It had been a while since we had seen him – he had the kids eating off of his plum tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We took a trip to Seattle as one of the museums that we have a membership to (thanks to the kid’s school for paying for it) had an event where you could see the Blue Angels take off from their location, they were having all sorts of guest speakers and other events going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kids liked the airplane that they set up for photos, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They also had an astronaut as a guest speaker. Michael A. Baker (a retired captain in the United States Navy, former NASA astronaut, and the International Space Station Program Manager for International and Crew Operations, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.) He was a part of the space shuttle missions: STS-43, STS-52, STS-68, and STS-81. The kids asked him a question and then got to take a photo with him too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we went outside and watched the Blue Angels take off (and some other planes did a flyby for the crowd).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While here, the kids wanted to get something “Blue Angels” so we got them some small trinkets to take home and hopefully not break before next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That night we stayed in Seattle, and the next morning we walked over to the Space Needle (Ezra’s first visit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pretty exciting for the first part of the month. It’s hard to believe we aren’t even a week in and have done this much so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upwards and onwards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

just Pray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Plus side, we now know of a cheap theater in the Portland area (sub $6 for tickets)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jshox.com\/jay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/aug4-bluang.jpg?fit=902%2C677&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3106,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2017\/08\/31\/2017-august-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10145,"position":0},"title":"2017 – August part 2","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"August 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow! 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