{"id":3472,"date":"2011-09-12T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/blog\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2011-09-12T18:54:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:54:46","slug":"a-weekend-in-the-poconos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/?p=3472","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend in the Poconos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our girls weekend in the Poconos was a success! I think that’s the first time I’ve been to the Poconos and actually felt like I was on vacation.<\/p>\n

I took Julia and Cheryl in my car and had absolutely no trouble getting there, yay. My dad had already turned off the alarm for us, so I didn’t have to worry about that. He also got guest passes for the pool so we could go swimming :)<\/p>\n

We were 40 minutes late, Helen, her sister Irena, and Emily arrived about an hour after us. That’s about the time I was expecting them though :D<\/p>\n

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\nWe snacked a little and then left for Bushkill Falls. Really close to the house. I can’t believe it took me 10 years to go there. It was a pretty nifty hike. We even saw a monkey. It was someone’s pet, but still, not something you see every day.<\/p>\n

Then we went back to the house and pigged out on more snacks. We decided to go swimming at the indoor pool. It took us forever to find the pool due to some miscommunication, but we saw a deer drinking milk from its mother, some wild turkeys and a couple of lost teenagers along the way.<\/p>\n

I think we spent more time in the hot tub than in the pool, but it was well worth the drive. When we got back we made African Peanut Sweet Potato Stew<\/a> for dinner. Julia volunteered to chop the jalape\u00f1os which turned out to be a terrible mistake. For some reason, those little guys were much hotter than usual and burned her skin pretty badly :( She spent the next three hours in agony. Lesson learned: wear gloves when chopping jalape\u00f1os. <\/p>\n

Plus Helen’s spinach and artichoke dip, some bread and eggplant dip, some spinach pie… For dessert we had Julia’s forzen bananas and I had made dairy free oatmeal raisin ice cream and pi\u00f1a colada ice cream which I proceeded to ruin by adding too much rum. It was probably a good thing because we would have eaten too much otherwise.<\/p>\n

But really, we didn’t drink nearly enough. I don’t think we started drinking until like 10. Four of us drank and we only got through half a bottle of wine. Pathetic really.<\/p>\n

After dessert, I made more dessert :P And we watched Firefly. Most of the night was spent giggling and talking, good times :)<\/p>\n

We actually did sleep, though not enough. We woke up around 9:30. Had a huge breakfast consisting of Emily’s Maple Walnut Scones, Julia’s leftover rice pudding, pancakes with leftover oatmeal raisin ice cream on top, eggs and bacon. It was pretty awesome. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately we then had to clean up and go home. Getting back somehow took us three hours. We veered off course in search of a toilet and I guess it really screwed us up, lol. We did eventually make it home and then it took Julia forever to get to her house because of the Jets game :( Poor girl had no luck this weekend. She still had fun though, I swear, she said she did! :D<\/p>\n

We will definitely have to do this again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our girls weekend in the Poconos was a success! I think that’s the first time I’ve been to the Poconos and actually felt like I was on vacation. I took Julia and Cheryl in my car and had absolutely no trouble getting there, yay. My dad had already turned off the alarm for us, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bQP0-U0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}