{"id":2593,"date":"2019-04-03T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2020-01-20T18:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T00:24:34","slug":"day-6-family-day-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/day-6-family-day-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6: Family Day &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The highlight of today and of the trip is to see my Uncle Stan, and cousins Wendy and Kathy for an afternoon visit and then dinner with Leslie, Carol &amp; Mel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around noon, after a leisurely morning of many cups of coffee and then breakfast, we head off to Oakville to where Uncle Stan and Kathy live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We spend an enjoyable afternoon chatting with everyone and having lunch. My uncle shows us his art work which is amazing! He has a teacher that comes to the house and he has produced an significant body of work using many different styles and mediums, very impressive. We&#8217;re so wrapped up in the conversations that I don&#8217;t that any photos, so I&#8217;ve &#8220;borrowed&#8221; a couple from later in the week for this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/20190406-IMG_2463-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_2463-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_2463-150x139.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_2463-768x710.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_2463-1024x946.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Kathy holding Zoe and Wendy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/20190406-IMG_2457-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_2457-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_2457-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_2457-768x722.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_2457-1024x963.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Uncle Stan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After our visit we drive over to Port Carling since we&#8217;re in the neighbourhood and stop of for a &#8220;small&#8221; snack before heading home for the day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/20190406-IMG_1078-Edit-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_1078-Edit-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_1078-Edit-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190406-IMG_1078-Edit-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption>Super Nachos for 4-6 people!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After driving back to Leslie&#8217;s, a mere 1.5hrs on the freeway, we get together with Carol and Mel for a lovely home cooked dinner, thanks Leslie! Home cooking is especially good after a week of restaurants on the road. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/20190403-IMG_2350-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190403-IMG_2350-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190403-IMG_2350-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190403-IMG_2350-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190403-IMG_2350-1024x651.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Mel, Leslie, Carol and I<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of today and of the trip is to see my Uncle Stan, and cousins Wendy and Kathy for an afternoon visit and then dinner with Leslie, Carol &amp; Mel Around noon, after a leisurely morning of many cups of coffee and then breakfast, we head off to Oakville to where Uncle Stan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel","tag-rt2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}