{"id":11819,"date":"2015-01-29T19:05:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=11819"},"modified":"2015-01-29T19:05:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:05:37","slug":"california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/california-2\/","title":{"rendered":"California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month or so ago we decided that this year we were going to go to California for Spring Break.  The kids have been begging forever to go, and Austin really wants to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/berkeley.edu\/index.html\">Berkley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So we booked our airline tickets and started to plan.  We are all SUPER excited about this.  Even Eva.  Today she told me she wants to go to Hollywood.  Our plan is to start in San Fran and travel down the Pacific Coast highway down to San Diego.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a94e843446d017e529e8a804c56272ad.jpg\" alt=\"a94e843446d017e529e8a804c56272ad\" width=\"479\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a94e843446d017e529e8a804c56272ad.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a94e843446d017e529e8a804c56272ad-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/d2e25d125b153b44f1b34151e1f0fd86.jpg\" alt=\"d2e25d125b153b44f1b34151e1f0fd86\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/d2e25d125b153b44f1b34151e1f0fd86.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/d2e25d125b153b44f1b34151e1f0fd86-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I want to see the redwoods<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/461ebc1ae378db7a0ba4eed2a32c6deb.jpg\" alt=\"461ebc1ae378db7a0ba4eed2a32c6deb\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/461ebc1ae378db7a0ba4eed2a32c6deb.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/461ebc1ae378db7a0ba4eed2a32c6deb-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California is a photographers dream.  I plan to take 5 million pictures<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3e12b931f6fa2134a7da66bd2b9989d4.jpg\" alt=\"3e12b931f6fa2134a7da66bd2b9989d4\" width=\"736\" height=\"982\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3e12b931f6fa2134a7da66bd2b9989d4.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3e12b931f6fa2134a7da66bd2b9989d4-600x801.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3e12b931f6fa2134a7da66bd2b9989d4-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait for my kids to see the Pacific Ocean- it&#8217;s so different than the Atlantic and the Gulf<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a42dd331bcca3716ebe23724e3916ff7.jpg\" alt=\"a42dd331bcca3716ebe23724e3916ff7\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a42dd331bcca3716ebe23724e3916ff7.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a42dd331bcca3716ebe23724e3916ff7-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Austin claims that California is the state for him.  He has only been there once and he was 3 or 4 so he remembers nothing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a042cebe766f45b47571b7aae0b92bd3.jpg\" alt=\"a042cebe766f45b47571b7aae0b92bd3\" width=\"499\" height=\"682\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a042cebe766f45b47571b7aae0b92bd3.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a042cebe766f45b47571b7aae0b92bd3-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having trouble narrowing down what I want to do<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/95df96c664c3b2a380c526c72208db61.jpg\" alt=\"95df96c664c3b2a380c526c72208db61\" width=\"442\" height=\"552\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/95df96c664c3b2a380c526c72208db61.jpg 442w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/95df96c664c3b2a380c526c72208db61-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have I mentioned how excited I am?  We are getting our family pictures taken by the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/tarawhitney.com\/\">Tara Whitney<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4baacbd44ae509f5cbff8962003f0f39-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"4baacbd44ae509f5cbff8962003f0f39\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4baacbd44ae509f5cbff8962003f0f39-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4baacbd44ae509f5cbff8962003f0f39-600x1067.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4baacbd44ae509f5cbff8962003f0f39-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Counting down the days!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/b783290f795aa5c1d668eb325c21d548.jpg\" alt=\"b783290f795aa5c1d668eb325c21d548\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/b783290f795aa5c1d668eb325c21d548.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/b783290f795aa5c1d668eb325c21d548-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month or so ago we decided that this year we were going to go to California for Spring Break. The kids have been begging forever to go, and Austin really wants to check out Berkley. So we booked our airline tickets and started to plan. We are all SUPER excited about this. Even Eva. Today she told me she wants to go to Hollywood. Our plan is to start in San Fran and travel down the Pacific Coast highway down to San Diego. I want to see the redwoods California is a photographers dream. I plan to take 5 million pictures I can&#8217;t wait for my kids to see the Pacific Ocean- it&#8217;s so different than the Atlantic and the Gulf Austin claims that California is the state for him. He has only been there once and he was 3 or 4 so he remembers nothing. I&#8217;m having trouble narrowing down what I want to do Have I mentioned how excited I am? We are getting our family pictures taken by the fabulous Tara Whitney! Counting down the days!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11830,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions\/11830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}