{"id":184,"date":"2010-04-20T06:09:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=184"},"modified":"2014-07-18T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T00:24:07","slug":"school-vacation-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"School Vacation Week!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and I both have a few days off during school vacation week and we have some fun plans too!<\/p>\n<p>Day 1- Eric Carle Museum, Dr. Seuss Sculpture Park and the Ellen Show!<\/p>\n<p>We traveled out west- to Amherst and Springfield.\u00c2\u00a0 The boys loved the Eric Carle Museum when we visited last spring.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything is so hands on for them- the Art studio (the day&#8217;s activity was print making), playing the library, scavenger hunt in the Gallery- perfect for them!\u00c2\u00a0 It is big, beautiful and full of light!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-185\" title=\"IMG_3419\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3419-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3419\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3419-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3419-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-186\" title=\"IMG_3423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3423-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3423\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3423-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3423-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-187\" title=\"IMG_3421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3421-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3421\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3421-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3421-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since it was the closest we would be to Springfield, we took the quick trip to the Dr. Seuss Sculpture park in the Springfield Museums.\u00c2\u00a0 The park was beautiful! (going to save the museums for when the boys are a bit older).\u00c2\u00a0 We saw characters from all our favorite stories!\u00c2\u00a0 Brendan LOVED the girl from Cat in the Hat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-188\" title=\"IMG_3456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3456-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3456\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3456-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3456-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-189\" title=\"IMG_3453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3453-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3453\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3453-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3453-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-190\" title=\"IMG_3452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3452-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3452\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3452-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3452-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later Aidan and I decided that since Jennie was in Mexico, we should go the Ellen event in Brighton (so close to her house!!!).\u00c2\u00a0 You had to bring three items- something beginning with C, V and S.\u00c2\u00a0 Aidan brought his cap, vegetables and Sunggie!\u00c2\u00a0 It was so fun seeing everyone&#8217;s creativity!\u00c2\u00a0 Not sure that Aidan will be on TV but is was quite the experience!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-191\" title=\"IMG_3461\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3461-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3461\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3461-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_3461-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and I both have a few days off during school vacation week and we have some fun plans too! Day 1- Eric Carle Museum, Dr. Seuss Sculpture Park and the Ellen Show! We traveled out west- to Amherst and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}