{"id":91,"date":"2006-06-01T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T17:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/orlando\/saturday-5272006-the-family\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T12:42:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T18:42:27","slug":"saturday-5272006-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/orlando\/saturday-5272006-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Time in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie goes to visit my brother, Scott, and his family in Florida at least twice a year. I was down for a weekend trip, so I decided to join her over Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, I had enough time to drink coffee, clean my house, and finish packing, and then it was time to head to the aeroport. I felt a little bad about the fact that I was in first class and my sister was in coach, but she said she didn&#8217;t mind as long as I brought her back something good. So, having never flown first class, I was kind of enamored of the novelty. The seats were huge (I sat crosslegged most of the flight), and had footrests. They got us drinking before the flight even took off (FYI: Northwest Airlines serves Jack Daniels), gave us snacks and a full meal. However, the first class restroom did not have a Jacuzzi, as I was led to believe. I&#8217;d never pay to be up there, but it was pretty nice to exploit <em>them<\/em> for once.<\/p>\n<p>Staying with my brother and his family was awesome; I don&#8217;t see them anywhere near often enough. Kaitie is four years old now, and Melody (aka the smilingest baby on earth) is one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/images\/kaitieshoulders.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" border=\"1\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Kaitie <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/images\/flyingbaby.jpg?resize=300%2C400\" border=\"1\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Melody <\/em><\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s fun to be around the kids, it stresses me out immensely, and I&#8217;ve begun to appreciate the little maintenance involved with my cats, who I&#8217;ve sometimes considered too demanding. Also, I happened to notice that when you have children, it&#8217;s difficult to stay out until the ante-meridiem hours; in fact, Scott and Ali were often in bed before 9pm. ACK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie goes to visit my brother, Scott, and his family in Florida at least twice a year. I was down for a weekend trip, so I decided to join her over Memorial Day. Saturday, I had enough time to drink coffee, clean my house, and finish packing, and then it was time to head to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[81,501,507],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"geo":{"latitude":28.538335799999998698694980703294277191162109375,"longitude":-81.3792342999999931407728581689298152923583984375,"description":"Orlando, FL, USA"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/storage\/2006\/06\/155064546_2d77421831_o.jpg?fit=1280%2C1024","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Z5R-1t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":94,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/orlando\/tuesday-5302006-going-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":91,"position":0},"title":"Orlando -> Minneapolis","author":"Jenni","date":"06.1.2006","format":false,"excerpt":"It was sad to say goodbye to everybody, especially my brother, because he's so great and I only see him maybe twice a year. 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