{"id":23691,"date":"2021-02-24T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23691"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:47:13","slug":"traveling-to-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23691","title":{"rendered":"Traveling to Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I traveled to Arizona for my first out of town pickleball tournament. It was one of the big ones too — the first Pro Pickleball Association (PPA) tournament of the year — with over 1200 registered players. It was a bit stressful trying to get out of Wichita with so many flight cancellations due to the winter storms. My 7 AM flight on Wednesday actually got canceled but luckily Brian was able to rebook me on an noon flight. The only downside is, instead of arriving in Arizona around noon, I wouldn’t arrive until 6 PM but I was grateful to be able to get there at all. <\/p>\n

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Obligatory airport pic. (Photo credit: Brian)<\/p>\n

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This is what Wichita looked like when I left. <\/p>\n

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Massive construction at the Denver airport.<\/p>\n

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Quickie airport lunch — hotdog and fries.<\/p>\n

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The first order of business upon my arrival at the resort — dinner and drinks at Roy’s. The drinks were delicious and pretty but expensive.<\/p>\n

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Karen was completely hooked on these lobster potstickers.<\/p>\n

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I got us some calamari to share.<\/p>\n

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My katsu chicken dinner. <\/p>\n

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Special bread pudding dessert.<\/p>\n

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Chocolate souffle. <\/p>\n

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Lauren Stratman joined us for that first dinner.<\/p>\n

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We had a nice time visiting over delicious food. I was so grateful I made it to the resort without any issues. I heard about the problems everyone was having with their car rentals and Ubers and I’m glad that Brian and I prearranged a car service pickup for me. Anyway, more about the trip next time. GNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I traveled to Arizona for my first out of town pickleball tournament. It was one of the big ones too — the first Pro Pickleball Association (PPA) tournament of the year — with over 1200 registered players. It was a bit stressful trying to get out of Wichita with so many flight cancellations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2304,21],"tags":[1249,3300,3137,3298,3299,2488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23691"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23699,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691\/revisions\/23699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}