{"id":3885,"date":"2018-11-26T16:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2018-12-20T05:43:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T05:43:16","slug":"trains-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2018\/11\/26\/trains-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Train & Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Between work and Westley, we decided to take it easy for Thanksgiving and invited Melody’s parents for a hot pot lunch. We went to Roseville<\/a> for Black Friday shopping, and spent most of our time comparing comforters and towels at Macy’s<\/a>, but ultimately returning and rebuying everything for the 10% cash back<\/A>. We also return our new 8-qt Instant Pot<\/a> for a more manageable 6-qt size, and our new 2nd gen Echo Show<\/a> for a cheaper version. The only thing we didn’t regret was the Mehfil<\/a> buffet. We headed to Vacaville the next day, detouring through unexplored areas of Yolo County to avoid the freeway traffic, but ultimately left empty handed from HomeGoods<\/a> and BBB<\/a>. On Sunday, after dim sum brunch with colleagues at HK Islander<\/a>, we went to Old Sac for Westley’s ride on the Polar Express<\/a>. Our Railroad Museum<\/a> membership allowed us to score first-class tickets for the French Quarter<\/A> car, where we enjoyed hot chocolate, cookies, music, and dancing on our ride to the North Pole to see Santa and his elves, and a gift of a silver bell. We returned to Old Sac for soupless XLB and boring beef noodles at i-Shanghai Delight<\/A>, just missing the Theater of Lights<\/A> show before heading back. At home, we embarked on the new Assassin’s Creed Odyssey<\/a> as Kassandra, the first female protagonist in the series. Aside from new features like fighting sharks and evading bounty hunters, we were content with the return to form with interesting narrative, stealthy sneaking, and satisfying drop-kills. With disappointing reviews for Fallout 76<\/A> and Shadow of the Tomb Raider<\/A>, and my inept foray into Fortnite<\/A>, we were glad to find a new game to keep us occupied on these cold winter nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between work and Westley, we decided to take it easy for Thanksgiving and invited Melody’s parents for a hot pot lunch. We went to Roseville for Black Friday shopping, and spent most of our time comparing comforters and towels at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}