{"id":2615,"date":"2014-02-02T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2014-02-02T11:42:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T19:42:25","slug":"kayaking-marina-del-rey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking Marina Del Rey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken on a ton of extra work at the office, so the weekends in January were basically a blur, later nights on weekdays and working on the weekends. \u00a0(and no blog posts for a month) \u00a0The stress was so bad that in the worst part I was only getting a few hours of sleep each night. \u00a0Sam was also in China (for work) for two weeks in January, so she wasn&#8217;t sleeping much either.<\/p>\n<p>Now that our sleep schedules are returning to normal and we feel comfortable enough to leave the house on the weekend we decided to use a Kayaking coupon we bought months ago.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Sam and I went to Marina Del Rey to Kayak. \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7321\/12273212105_cacb383b66.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>higher res and more photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andrewlong\/sets\/72157640422252296\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7377\/12273731714_7771f27d67.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We went over to Mother&#8217;s Beach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3721\/12273377155_e54c12383c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then circled across the marina entrance to see the birds at the pumping station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"yui_3_11_0_3_1391369662836_430\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2813\/12273223165_fb85536558.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2822\/12273240745_5667675af8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the choppy side with the restaurants we ran into a few frisky sea lions that came within fifteen feet of us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7349\/12273316855_e6ba3ce5e9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3798\/12274011156_b3a6ebdfe0_b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And back at the shop we watched the sunset.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3780\/12273346895_5c2abf9187_c.jpg\" \/>\\<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7341\/12273698744_4c11ce8168.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but think about my relatives who are snowed in today&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken on a ton of extra work at the office, so the weekends in January were basically a blur, later nights on weekdays and working on the weekends. \u00a0(and no blog posts for a month) \u00a0The stress was so bad that in the worst part I was only getting a few hours of sleep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}