{"id":3761,"date":"2018-08-21T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2018-08-21T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:48:26","slug":"one-last-family-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/2018\/08\/21\/one-last-family-outing\/","title":{"rendered":"One Last Family Outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come. We&#8217;re finally in the homestretch of the program. One. Week. Left. Crazy, right? With this in mind my host family decided we should have one more big family outing before I return to the USA, so off to an amusement park we went!<\/p>\n<p>The amusement park was about three hours from Hakodate so we ended up going on a bit of a mini road trip. We bought snacks and then we were off! Honestly, I fell asleep for the first half of the ride so I&#8217;m entirely sure what happened then but I do know that when I woke up we were making a pit stop for some ice cream, yum! \u3059\u3054\u304f\u304a\u3044\u3057\u304b\u3063\u305f\u3067\u3059\u3002It was super delicious.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3762\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2701-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2701-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2701-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2701.jpg 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0a<\/p>\n<p>(My host sister Yuzuki! So adorable!)<\/p>\n<p>After this we were off again and eventually we arrived at the amusement park, Resutsu Resort.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3763\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/39279098-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/39279098-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/39279098-768x324.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/39279098-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/39279098.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3764\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2693-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2693-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2693-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2693-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are no words that can truly describe how much fun this day was so instead I will gift you all with a series of pictures that do all the explaining for me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3765\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2854-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2854-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2854-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2854.jpg 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3766\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2855-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2855-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2855-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2855.jpg 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3768\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2689-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2689-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2689-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2689-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_2689-1.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you all know, my host family means the absolute world to me and this trip was no exception to how amazing of a time I have when I spend time with them. We spent the day riding various roller coasters, eating DELICIOUS food and ended the night with a magnificent fireworks display. I truly could not have asked for a more perfect day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come. We&#8217;re finally in the homestretch of the program. One. Week. Left. Crazy, right? With this in mind my host family decided we should have one more big family outing before I return to the USA, so off to an amusement park we went! The amusement park was about three hours from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/2018\/08\/21\/one-last-family-outing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Last Family Outing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115493,290963],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-sla-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3021"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}