{"id":278,"date":"2007-05-25T00:58:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T08:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2007\/05\/25\/blog-068-vacation-day-1-of-6\/"},"modified":"2008-11-22T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T22:27:12","slug":"blog-068-vacation-day-1-of-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/05\/25\/blog-068-vacation-day-1-of-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 068 > Vacation Day 1 of 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01c_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo 001 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Okay, Gentle Readers, here&#8217;s my first batch of vacation pics and vids, set in chronological order! During the 5-hour flight from Las Vegas to New York&#8217;s John F Kennedy airport, I met a funny blond kid, about 12 years old, named Ethan, not only a self-proclaimed expert on Africa (except the cities, lol) and the solar system (except the moons, lol) but also the future husband of Britney Spears&#8217; little 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn, lol.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We battled against each other on the onboard-computer trivia game: I was QQQQQQ and he was ETTAAA. I won a couple times and he won a couple times, but Ethan&#8217;s highest score ultimately beat my highest score. He made fun of me, lol, but when someone else on the plane earned a better highest score than either of us, I made fun of him, hahaha! His mom fainted during the flight, but fortunately, she made it through okay&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01d_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo 002 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Photos 002 and 003 show our plane leaving Gate D40 at Las Vegas&#8217; McCarran International Airport. You can see Gate D41 in the distance.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01e.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01e_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo 003 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01f.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01f_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo 004 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-videos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01a.wmv\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-videos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01a_wmv_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Video 001 by xJAYMANx | WMV = 26.4 MB = 7:10 minutes | Click to play<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Video 001 &#8211; Flight to New York.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-videos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_02a.wmv\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-videos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_02a_wmv_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Video 002 by xJAYMANx | WMV = 26.1 MB = 7:07 minutes | Click to play<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Video 002 &#8211; Meeting the Parents.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01aa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01aa_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo 005 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Once again, Photo 005 was taken by Mom, Photo 006 was taken by me, at the Long Island Chinese restaurant \u201cPalace of Wong\u201d where we picked up some dinner after leaving the airport.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_01b_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo 006 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-videos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_03a.wmv\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-videos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_03a_wmv_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Video 003 by xJAYMANx | WMV = 40.5 MB = 11:01 minutes | Click to play<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Video 003 &#8211; Home Sweet Home. Finally back home after 10 or 12 years away!!!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-videos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_04a.wmv\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-videos\/xjaymanx_east_coast_04a_wmv_sm.jpg\" alt=\"East Coast Vacation\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Video 004 by xJAYMANx | WMV = 25.7 MB = 7:01 minutes | Click to play<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Video 004 &#8211; My Old Room.<\/p>\n<p>Well, hope you enjoyed Day 1! Stay tuned for Day 2!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo 001 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge Okay, Gentle Readers, here&#8217;s my first batch of vacation pics and vids, set in chronological order! During the 5-hour flight from Las Vegas to New York&#8217;s John F Kennedy airport, I met a funny blond kid, about 12 years old, named Ethan, not only a self-proclaimed expert &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/05\/25\/blog-068-vacation-day-1-of-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}