{"id":206,"date":"2006-04-28T16:35:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T20:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=206"},"modified":"2006-04-28T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T20:35:36","slug":"open-house-and-beach-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Open House and Beach Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a beautiful day!  We lucked out.  It&#8217;s upper 70s and absolutely gorgous and dry.  Perfect for our Open House today.  A crowd showed up at 1 pm and hung around until 2:30 (when the official Beach Party was scheduled to begin).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Myrtle%20Beach%20open%20house.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Myrtle Beach open house.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Myrtle%20Beach%20open%20house-thumb.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few people checked out our unusual trailer, and others snacked under the awning and asked questions about how we do what we do.  A lot of people wanted to know when I worked, and I told them &#8220;Whenever I can.&#8221;  Today, for example, I managed to get two articles edited and uploaded for layout, and started work on a third.  Half an hour here, half an hour there, and eventually it gets done.<\/p>\n<p>I also got a chance to briefly interview some other folks who had great little innovations in their Airstreams. Those will appear in the Summer magazine.  And, best of all, I have been told that the Spring magazine is finally off the press and will be put in the mail this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Myrtle Beach Party.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Myrtle%20Beach%20Party.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then it was off to the Beach Party, which was terrific.  Water balloon tossing contests, kite-flying, digging in the sand for treasure, etc.  In the photo above, Emma is competing against a bunch of other &#8220;girls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Brett and I got chosen to play each other in the balloon toss.  We set a record for longest tosses, but ultimately I got splashed (and lost!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Myrtle Beach Fred balloon.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Myrtle%20Beach%20Fred%20balloon.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"571\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Fred catches another one<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;ve got a few minutes before the barbecue dinner at the clubhouse.  I&#8217;m already beat from all the action today, and tomorrow looks to be even busier.  Other people relax at rallies.  I always need a vacation after one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a beautiful day! We lucked out. It&#8217;s upper 70s and absolutely gorgous and dry. Perfect for our Open House today. A crowd showed up at 1 pm and hung around until 2:30 (when the official Beach Party was scheduled to begin). A few people checked out our unusual trailer, and others snacked under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}