{"id":2376,"date":"2007-05-05T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T03:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:41:07","slug":"back-home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/back-home-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Back home again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; it&#8217;s Saturday night and we&#8217;re back home again. Well I say &#8220;we&#8217;re back home again&#8221; loosely because, well as of last night I&#8217;m living in a brand new home with my new life* <strong>Laurie<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIt is a little different having girl stuff in my home. But granted its more like boy stuff has moved into her place since she&#8217;s been here a full month already.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ve been married a full week already &#8211; and yet it seems like we&#8217;ve been best friends for a lifetime already.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/485843145\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/182\/485843145_e3206ac9b2.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"The Bride and Groom\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\">wedding<\/a> on Saturday we went and enjoyed a good meal at Outback Steakhouse before returning to our room at the <a href=\"http:\/\/dfwairport.hyatt.com\/hyatt\/hotels\/index.jsp\">Hyatt Regency<\/a>. We had a great room and opted for the Park, Sleep and Fly package which made getting to our flight at 6:36 a.m. much easier. We simply paid a little more for our room and were able to keep my truck parked at the hotel and took a shuttle to our gate on Sunday morning.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/485819854\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/168\/485819854_118b4598f3.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Hyatt Regency DFW\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe arrived in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pagosa_Springs\">Pagosa Springs<\/A>, via Denver and Durango later that afternoon after stopping for some <a href=\"http:\/\/serioustexasbbq.com\/index.htm\">Serious Texas BBQ<\/a> in Durango.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/485819862\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/203\/485819862_5b4d918414.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Serious Texas BBQ\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThey offered up some great BBQ along a gorgeous river side patio.<br \/>\nAfter arriving in Pagosa Springs, it didn&#8217;t take long before we enjoying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagosahotsprings.com\/\">20 hot springs fed<\/a> mineral baths outdoors.<br \/>\nIt was also not long until we started hunting a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\">Geocaches<\/a> the next day. We found five overall during the week, including our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/track\/geocoin.aspx\">Geocoin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jeep.geocaching.com\/\">Jeep Travel Bug<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/seek\/cache_details.aspx?guid=7a57efe5-b6ed-42db-8627-daaf41712117\">Multi-Cache<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/485836084\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/208\/485836084_755eb7ed59.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"First Multi-Cache found\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe also spent a day traveling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.durangotrain.com\/\">Durango-Silverton Railroad<\/a> (although it only traveled to Cascade Canyon due to their &#8220;winter schedule&#8221;).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/485836114\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/192\/485836114_0adda32962.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Break in Cascade Canyon\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe also enjoyed a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagosabrewing.com\/\">Pagosa Brewing Company<\/a> where my lovely life suggested I get a hat to commemorate our visit. She knows me too well.<br \/>\nOverall it was a great week of Geocaching, great food and great relaxation in the hot spring tubs.<br \/>\nAlthough I must say despite enjoying several local eateries I think Laurie&#8217;s favorite meals during the week were at Subway, Taco Bell and McDonalds &#8211; go figure ;-).<br \/>\nWell I should really get to work on a video for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encounterthis.com\">church tomorrow<\/a>, but I wanted to be sure and update my blog before it got too late &#8211; we&#8217;ve spent most of the day running errands and buying new camping gear with our wedding gift cards and we also bought a brand new <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.magellangps.com\/news\/releases\/viewRelease.asp?id=490\">GPS unit<\/span> so we can return the borrowed unit from <strong>Josh and Shalyn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/485836120\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/177\/485836120_2dfaee3390.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Jumping for Joy\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThanks to everyone for their prayers, support, gifts and encouragements &#8211; they&#8217;re all greatly appreciated!<br \/>\nAnd be sure to keep posted because I know we have a slide show coming as well as an updated version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\">CasaDeBlundell.com<\/a> and more photos on <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/\">Flickr<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m sure my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/\">life<\/a> will post her thoughts and comments before too long as well.<\/p>\n<p>*Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/nanolog.blogspot.com\/\">Thomas<\/a> for the proper example\/wording for wife. \ud83d\ude42 After all &#8211; anyone can have a wife. It takes a real man to make her his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; it&#8217;s Saturday night and we&#8217;re back home again. Well I say &#8220;we&#8217;re back home again&#8221; loosely because, well as of last night I&#8217;m living in a brand new home with my new life* Laurie. It is a little different having girl stuff in my home. But granted its more like boy stuff has moved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/back-home-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back home again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,3,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-misc","category-newsandpop","category-techno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Ck","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}