{"id":868,"date":"2016-02-22T18:35:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/?p=868"},"modified":"2016-03-06T02:01:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T02:01:49","slug":"even-closer-to-home-yet-so-far-away-our-day-with-sidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/2016\/02\/22\/even-closer-to-home-yet-so-far-away-our-day-with-sidney\/","title":{"rendered":"Even closer to home &#8211; yet so far away! Our Day with Sidney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being with the Millers was definitely like being home. Another taste of\u00a0home we got (while being physically\u00a0over 1,300 miles away from our sticks and bricks home) after a 4 hour drive we were able to see our niece Sidney! This is her first year in college and we&#8217;re so happy we got to see her and tour her campus. It&#8217;s a beautiful campus! The dorm rooms are super small, so I&#8217;m glad she likes her roommate. I think her room is the size of singles where I went to college.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was starting to drizzle and the campus is not too big, so we were able to take\u00a0the tour fairly quick before we got some lunch.<\/p>\n<p>I really really wanted to go the the Civil Rights Museum there in Birmingham and I wanted the kids to see it. We have toured the Alamo and some other museums and capital buildings dealing with the civil war and we&#8217;ve talked about these southern states seceding and then rejoining the union, so we have covered the topic. But I heard this was an amazing museum and I wanted them, and even myself, to get an even better understanding of what occurred, what people experienced, etc. \u00a0However, the kids had been in the car for 4 hours and we had 4 more ahead of us for the return trip. (yes it was a crazy fast, long trip, but worth every minute to see Sid!!) So it was decided that the awesome and fun McWane Science Museum was our activity of the day. Even better, with our membership to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science\u00a0we have reciprocal privileges at museums and science centers across the USA, so we got in free!<\/p>\n<div id=\"flickr_72157664415943400_3606\"><div class=\"slickr-flickr-slideshow landscape medium \"><div class=\"active\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1678\/25181355486_ef5bcc7b6a.jpg\" title=\"Sid welcomes us in\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Sid welcomes us in<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1520\/24839989009_bef9e12c8f.jpg\" title=\"Dorm room\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Dorm room<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1544\/25181355356_d92fe3efa0.jpg\" title=\"Samford tour\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Samford tour<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1496\/24912040060_9985b239fa.jpg\" title=\"Chalk wall downtown Birmingham\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Chalk wall downtown Birmingham<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1659\/25089402902_0ae3e77741.jpg\" title=\"Yay!!\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Yay!!<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1687\/25114443721_18d4f82688.jpg\" title=\"Youch!\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Youch!<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1503\/25089402862_a3531dea68.jpg\" title=\"What&#039;s the point?\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>What's the point?<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1668\/24912039850_60e972d5a9.jpg\" title=\"She&#039;s on pins and needles\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>She's on pins and needles<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1595\/25207663675_60e972d5a9.jpg\" title=\"Get to the point\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Get to the point<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1630\/24875437079_304701162f.jpg\" title=\"Aahhhoooohhhmmmm\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Aahhhoooohhhmmmm<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1568\/24616264543_6200a3d175.jpg\" title=\"Floating\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Floating<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1584\/25114443681_1cac7892b5.jpg\" title=\"Air flow\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Air flow<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1507\/24577007764_76905a7820.jpg\" title=\"Laser harp\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Laser harp<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1607\/25124784352_46116746b0.jpg\" title=\"Ball launcher\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Ball launcher<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1692\/25207664945_6a92a0df4d.jpg\" title=\"Whoever relaxes more, wins\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Whoever relaxes more, wins<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1514\/24577007674_747d43d7a5.jpg\" title=\"Live sea urchins\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Live sea urchins<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1670\/25181356346_02c8987781.jpg\" title=\"Sharks and rays to touch\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Sharks and rays to touch<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1442\/25207664745_28964be3a9.jpg\" title=\"Magnifying shark teeth\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Magnifying shark teeth<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1627\/25243070535_736548fd7e.jpg\" title=\"Fastest reflexes\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Fastest reflexes<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1552\/24954920339_f141aafcd4.jpg\" title=\"Angular momentum\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Angular momentum<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1710\/25296342346_05327d4b73.jpg\" title=\"We made an arch\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>We made an arch<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1530\/25229465861_e9ef088d8a.jpg\" title=\"Girls\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Girls<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1710\/25181356266_823960d2a7.jpg\" title=\"Science class\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Science class<\/p><\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery(\"#flickr_72157664415943400_3606\").data(\"options\",{\"delay\":3000,\"autoplay\":true,\"transition\":500,\"link\":\"next\",\"target\":\"_self\",\"width\":\"\",\"height\":\"\"});<\/script><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>There were so many fun things to do! Dacen and Huck covered most of them really well in their\u00a0posts! We all had so much fun hanging out with Sidney! I&#8217;m glad she was willing to do her homework on Saturday so she could spend Sunday afternoon with us!<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to extend our time in Mobile and Birmingham, but it&#8217;s so hard to get into the state parks and Huck had found us a reservation at St. Andrews, so there wasn&#8217;t much choice. Thanks for some good times Sid, Bill and Karen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being with the Millers was definitely like being home. Another taste of\u00a0home we got (while being physically\u00a0over 1,300 miles away from our sticks and bricks home) after a 4 hour drive we were able to see our niece Sidney! This is her first year in college and we&#8217;re so happy we got to see her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}