{"id":7858,"date":"2015-04-15T07:18:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7858"},"modified":"2015-04-14T19:06:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:06:27","slug":"vacation-recap-arizona-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/vacation-recap-arizona-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Recap – Arizona Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"0Z9A0170\"<\/a>Three weeks ago, this year’s Reach for the Stars trip started off just as last year’s ended: with a flight delay.\u00a0 Thankfully, this time the delay was only a little over an hour, so we made it to Arizona early in the afternoon on Wednesday.\u00a0 Rather than take part of the pool or some other activity at the lovely Phoenician \u00a0resort, my travel companion decided a nap was in order, so I got to start an exciting book prior to the evenings activity, dinner on the quad of the resort.<\/p>\n

Thursday was the day of the company sponsored activity, and I chose a rafting trip down the Lower Salt River.\u00a0 After some trepidation followed by reassurances that the rafting was rather low key, a last minute audible was made to attend said trip, and I must say it was the right decision.\u00a0 To give the day a water theme, we did finally hit the pool once we got back to the resort.\u00a0 That night was the gala dinner, where we got to shake hands with the big boss man.<\/p>\n

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Friday, my own personal plans for the trip started in force.\u00a0 March in Arizona means spring training, and the Cubs were doing battle against the White Sox this fine day at their newly re-christened facility in Mesa.\u00a0 There were a few other folks from the resort who were also headed to the game, so we shared the cost of a car and commuted together.\u00a0 The Cubs managed to get the best of their former teammate Jeff Samardzija on this day.\u00a0 Following the game, we returned to the resort in time to head out to the night’s farewell dinner, which was held offsite at a ranch of some sort.\u00a0 A good old fashioned ho-down was on tap.<\/p>\n

The conference came to an end on Saturday, but things were just starting for me.\u00a0 In the morning, we checked out of the resort and caught a shuttle to the airport, where a rental car was waiting with out name on it.\u00a0 Little did we know that waiting was the key word.\u00a0 But that we will cover tomorrow, in part 2 of this little adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago, this year’s Reach for the Stars trip started off just as last year’s ended: with a flight delay.\u00a0 Thankfully, this time the delay was only a little over an hour, so we made it to Arizona early in the afternoon on Wednesday.\u00a0 Rather than take part of the pool or some other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3268],"tags":[120,626,5554,5513,5181,49,551],"class_list":["post-7858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-cubs","tag-jeff-samardzija","tag-lower-salt-river","tag-sloan-park","tag-the-phoenician","tag-white-sox","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7910,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions\/7910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}