{"id":1000,"date":"2012-12-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popnea.com\/blog\/christmas-day-2\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T04:00:00","slug":"christmas-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popnea.com\/blog\/christmas-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nI woke up in cracker dawn to take the first flight out of Denver to make it in time for Christmas lunch in Hacienda Heights.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1Dussp2bJeI\/UV5JYTcXVDI\/AAAAAAAAKHU\/IMjjGAfkAI8\/s1600\/denver-airport.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1Dussp2bJeI\/UV5JYTcXVDI\/AAAAAAAAKHU\/IMjjGAfkAI8\/s1600\/denver-airport.jpg?w=1200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nSpending Christmas with my LA family is the next best thing to spending Christmas with my Swedish family!<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nWe started off with a Gingerbread House Decoration Contest. We teamed up two and two and my team made an awesome 4 story house! Unfortunately, the rest of the teams took too long to put their houses together and the icing provided to glue the houses together was not that great, so our house fell apart.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nMy teammate Annie is a quick thinker though so we named our project Sandy after the recent west coast storm, so we managed to win the contest!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-AQUyk2TflHE\/UV5JbEs2ilI\/AAAAAAAAKHs\/C6Gvg78PuzA\/s1600\/gingerbread-house.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-AQUyk2TflHE\/UV5JbEs2ilI\/AAAAAAAAKHs\/C6Gvg78PuzA\/s1600\/gingerbread-house.jpg?w=1200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-qPGg6B7IQOM\/UV5JZBUB_uI\/AAAAAAAAKHc\/yN7FfpPIUCc\/s1600\/games.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-qPGg6B7IQOM\/UV5JZBUB_uI\/AAAAAAAAKHc\/yN7FfpPIUCc\/s1600\/games.jpg?w=1200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nAfter all the fun and games it was time to get serious with the White Elephant Gift Exchange.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-xCMS7J84Y0g\/UV5JXn_SPQI\/AAAAAAAAKHM\/pUB7c16v1Ew\/s1600\/gift-exchange.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-xCMS7J84Y0g\/UV5JXn_SPQI\/AAAAAAAAKHM\/pUB7c16v1Ew\/s1600\/gift-exchange.jpg?w=1200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nI scored a bottle of wine!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-dkyCKS1Qt3Y\/UV5JaNvg0rI\/AAAAAAAAKHk\/B29CG1PmmBM\/s1600\/wine.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-dkyCKS1Qt3Y\/UV5JaNvg0rI\/AAAAAAAAKHk\/B29CG1PmmBM\/s1600\/wine.jpg?w=1200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up in cracker dawn to take the first flight out of Denver to make it in time for Christmas lunch in Hacienda Heights. 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