{"id":4800,"date":"2011-11-27T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2011-11-27T22:36:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:36:56","slug":"we-like-to-take-our-guests-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/we-like-to-take-our-guests-here\/","title":{"rendered":"We like to take our guests here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6859.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4801\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6859.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6859-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We try to take our guests to the Sonoran Desert Museum when they visit us. It&#8217;s gorgeous weather right now, so our outing with Joe was really a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6803.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4802\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6803.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6803.jpg 433w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6803-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the drive to the museum, we travel on a rollicky up and down road through a saguaro forest. We raise our arms high in the van and feel our stomachs drop as we dip and turn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4803\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6801.jpg 433w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6801-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mark really gets into it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6822.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4804\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6822.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6822.jpg 433w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6822-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the museum, we learn about animals and plants. This was an American Kestrel we saw along the path. A docent patiently explained the life history and habits to each group that passed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6836.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4805\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6836.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6836.jpg 433w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6836-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Buddy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6831.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4818\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6831.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6831.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6831-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4806\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6839.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6839-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The desert museum has an ice cream shop along the trail. Since it was lunch time, we decided to call our ice cream cones &#8220;lunch&#8221; because that&#8217;s what you do when cousins come to town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4807\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6841.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6841-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dear world, this is my family who loves me even when my hair looks like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6847.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4808\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6847.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6847.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6847-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Timothy the ham.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4809\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6851.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6851-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cousins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4810\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6862.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6862-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cave explorers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6866.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4811\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6866.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6866.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6866-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Joe and 3 of his kids<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6870.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4812\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6870.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6870.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6870-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Excavation team<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6852.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4813\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6852.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6852.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6852-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is Richard so anxious about? A charging javelina? A desert tortoise in the path? You never know what you might encounter in the desert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6861.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4815\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6861.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6861.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_6861-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was a good day and we were so glad to have family visit us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We try to take our guests to the Sonoran Desert Museum when they visit us. It&#8217;s gorgeous weather right now, so our outing with Joe was really a lot of fun. On the drive to the museum, we travel on a rollicky up and down road through a saguaro forest. We raise our arms high &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/we-like-to-take-our-guests-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We like to take our guests here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-family-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}