{"id":1009,"date":"2007-03-31T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T22:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2007\/03\/31\/home-at-last\/"},"modified":"2007-03-31T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T22:33:43","slug":"home-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2007\/03\/31\/home-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Home at last."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/441137252\/\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/188\/441137252_1588a87e31_m.jpg\" alt=\"145_ChoirTour2007_homeatlast\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a> ..and there were tears. And they weren&#8217;t mine! I got the biggest hug (did he get TALLER?) and a bit of clinging &#8220;MOM!&#8221; ness when I picked him up. The bus was early, he got in about 2am, and was there when I pulled into the lot. He is still wired &#8211; hasn&#8217;t slept yet, because he slept on the plane and bus. Heh. That&#8217;s actually good though, because then he can sleep tonight, and get back on track before going back to school on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was excellent, he said, though he didn&#8217;t spend much money, or take a gazzilion pictures like I expected.. He did get himself some cool souveners, and even little trinkets for everyone else. AND the presentS for TGHLSB. A pewter fairy, and a trio of perfume from the shop at the Eiffel Tower. Heh.<\/p>\n<p>The guy in airport security broke his watch that he&#8217;d JUST gotten the day before at Hard Rock Cafe, Paris, and he was pretty mad about that. I&#8217;ve emailed their sales co-ordinator to see if I can get it exchanged or at least replace it for him.<\/p>\n<p>You can see all his pictures here:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/sets\/72157600038983709\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flikr Set<\/a> though be warned that a lot of the descriptions are &#8220;A monument&#8230;. somewhere&#8230; in Spain&#8230;&#8221; *L* I told him to write things down! But he didn&#8217;t, of course. Am I surprised? nope, not at all. *L*<\/p>\n<p>He did get some gorgeous pictures! And&#8230;. a whole buncha blurry ones where he wasn&#8217;t able to use the flash. No big. I am amused to see there are not any pictures of the group of kids he went with. *L* I&#8217;ll have to collect some from others, and rumor has it that Hendy puts together a book of pictures for everyone anyway. Rumor also has it some video of their singing will be availible online too &#8211; I&#8217;ll link as soon as I know for sure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But for now &#8211; he&#8217;s home, and happy, and really glad he went. That&#8217;s good enough for me!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/441119679\/\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/185\/441119679_24b3ff0a0c.jpg\" alt=\"059_ChoirTour2007\" border=\"0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Toledo, Spain. The Boy&#8217;s favorite of all the cities visitied.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..and there were tears. And they weren&#8217;t mine! I got the biggest hug (did he get TALLER?) and a bit of clinging &#8220;MOM!&#8221; ness when I picked him up. The bus was early, he got in about 2am, and was there when I pulled into the lot. He is still wired &#8211; hasn&#8217;t slept yet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primaries-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}