{"id":1376,"date":"2012-01-03T09:42:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2012-01-03T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T15:42:47","slug":"christmas-vacation-part-1-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2012\/01\/03\/christmas-vacation-part-1-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas vacation: part 1 &#8211; Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! XD I haven&#8217;t updated this blog while I was in the US because I forgot my password but it&#8217;s saved on my computer.  I&#8217;ll update in parts.<\/p>\n<p>I left Japan and also arrived on Thursday, Dec 22nd.  Took a taxi to my father&#8217;s and step-mom&#8217;s house.  Friday was a work-day, so I hitched a ride into downtown Boston with my dad and went shopping.<\/p>\n<p>I bought three pairs of pants for $50 dollars in TJMax.<br \/>\nNow that is significant, not only because of the kick-butt sale, but because there are LITERALLY NO PANTS that exist in Japan that adequately fit my body. -o-;;  I always get so frustrated going shopping in Japan, so I was practically crying with joy exiting TJmax.  lol<\/p>\n<p>In Dad&#8217;s office, I snapped a bunch of pictures of quotes he had hanging on his wall.  He is a really wise businessman.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/italian-proverb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/italian-proverb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"italian proverb\" width=\"377\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We pretty much hung out after that.  Had Chinese food for dinner.  American-style Chinese food. XD Rather than Japanese style, which is oilier.  Real Chinese is the oiliest.  lol  On Saturday, Christmas Eve, we didn&#8217;t have any chores except preparing food, so we hung out.  I got to spend a lot of quality time with family.  We just chatted about this and that, and we did some chores around the house. <3 <3  We went to a family friend's for dinner and had a nice time.\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/snowman-ornament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/snowman-ornament.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"snowman ornament\" width=\"494\" height=\"371\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Christmas, we opened presents.  I got a lot of nice clothes and candy and stuff. From Santa. ^^;  We went to my step-mother&#8217;s side of the family&#8217;s for Christmas dinner.  I&#8217;m sad my step-brother had to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas day until late.  We really get a long. ;_; But I saw him for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>I really really missed my Dad and it was so nice to spend time with him. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The day after Christmas, I woke up and took a bus to my Mom&#8217;s in Western Massachusetts&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>to be continued&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! XD I haven&#8217;t updated this blog while I was in the US because I forgot my password but it&#8217;s saved on my computer. I&#8217;ll update in parts. I left Japan and also arrived on Thursday, Dec 22nd. Took a taxi to my father&#8217;s and step-mom&#8217;s house. Friday was a work-day, so I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-8","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}