{"id":2835,"date":"2011-11-29T11:57:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T18:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2011-11-29T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T18:57:36","slug":"flightless-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"Flightless bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I just had the BEST Thanksgiving week ever \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We watched Breaking Dawn, which I had been waiting for A THOUSAND YEARS. hahaha&#8230; nah&#8230; just to get this clear. I like Twilight series not because of the actors\/actresses BUT I like the story, esp Edward&#8217;s personality. Well, I enjoyed the movie BUT BH obviously didn&#8217;t. hahaha&#8230; I love the soundtrack too&#8230; found so many good songs for wedding&#8230; OMG!! So romantic! I wanna get married again!! I rem how BH and I can&#8217;t think of any good songs during 6eptember .. now my whole head is filled with ideas&#8230; sigh&#8230;. I only blame myself for NOT\u00a0putting my wedding as priority then. Then again, it&#8217;s not the wedding day that counts.. it&#8217;s what&#8217;s after \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>BH also\u00a0had his 1 week break so we made plans for a small road trip. This time, we have Justin and Alina to join us. It was fun to travel together. haha&#8230; like double dating.. heh&#8230; The last time we travelled with another couple was like at least 8 years ago ( with Ben and Adeline) well.. glad we had &#8216;fresh meat&#8217; to join us! The bad part of he trip was it was raining heavily the whole time &#8211; The <del datetime=\"2011-11-29T17:58:07+00:00\">good<\/del> AWESOME and AMAZING company made up for it! \ud83d\ude00 Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>We went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmenamins.com\/\">Kennedy School <\/a>for dinner on 1st night. It&#8217;s something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeoutsingapore.com\/art\/venues\/other-spaces\/old-school\">Old School <\/a>in Singapore ( which I haven&#8217;t gone) It was quite an experience for us.. and kinda creepy too! hehe<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/us.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/us.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"us\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/us.jpg 404w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/us-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/us-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next day, we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tillamook.com\/cheesefactory\/index.html\">Tilamook cheese factory<\/a> and visited the Haystack on Cannon Beach<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/389159_10150422621052287_797537286_8233935_854357186_n1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/389159_10150422621052287_797537286_8233935_854357186_n1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"389159_10150422621052287_797537286_8233935_854357186_n\" width=\"412\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/389159_10150422621052287_797537286_8233935_854357186_n1.jpg 412w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/389159_10150422621052287_797537286_8233935_854357186_n1-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a nerve-wrecking trip along the Oregon coast as WE WERE RUNNING OUT OF PETROL. There&#8217;s no petrol kiosk nearby!!! OMG&#8230; the needle on the petrol guage was below the empty line and the &#8216;warning lights&#8217; were on ( Petrol Kisok was 10 miles away) !!! Just as the GPS shuts down&#8230;. we found the petrol kiosk . Phew!!! Reminder: Top-up petrol b4 driving along the coast esp on a rainy day!<\/p>\n<p>Just as we thought that was gonna be the &#8216;highlight&#8217; of the trip&#8230;. our GPS directed us up a ferry as we made our way back to Portland!<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/316782_10150422621712287_797537286_8233943_505034058_n1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/316782_10150422621712287_797537286_8233943_505034058_n1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"316782_10150422621712287_797537286_8233943_505034058_n\" width=\"418\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/316782_10150422621712287_797537286_8233943_505034058_n1.jpg 418w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/316782_10150422621712287_797537286_8233943_505034058_n1-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nIt was quite an adventure as none of us had seen such a small ferry over a lake! haha&#8230; it was like a floating platform which could take about 4-6 cars! How interesting!<\/p>\n<p>We had a fruitful trip , not much pictures as it was raining the whole time!!! :\/<br \/>\nWe would love to go for another trip together soon!!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nThe next day was Thanksgiving Party at Dave and Jo&#8217;s home. haha.. it was nice to meet everyone again&#8230; we played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Play-Mafia\">Mafia<\/a>, which is a  super fun party game and I am such a bad mafia.. always get caught :\/<\/p>\n<p>I had a great week that it was so weird to have BH and I having dinner at home.. haha.. too quiet&#8230; It had been too noisy the past week.. hehe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I just had the BEST Thanksgiving week ever \ud83d\ude42 We watched Breaking Dawn, which I had been waiting for A THOUSAND YEARS. hahaha&#8230; nah&#8230; just to get this clear. I like Twilight series not because of the actors\/actresses BUT I like the story, esp Edward&#8217;s personality. Well, I enjoyed the movie BUT BH &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2835\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flightless bird&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}