{"id":4399,"date":"2010-08-10T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2010-08-10T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T17:06:02","slug":"measuring-summer-by-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/measuring-summer-by-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring summer by the cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> know summer isn&#8217;t really over yet, but I&#8217;m back at work now and my holidays are over.  Even though it&#8217;s a little less than a month until the boys go back to school, Beloved&#8217;s holidays are also more or less over after next week.  So, even though there is plenty left of the summer of &#8217;10 to enjoy, I&#8217;m feeling retrospective about it already.<\/p>\n<p>It has been, by just about any measure, an <em>amazing <\/em>summer for us.  In the month of July alone, the boys swam in an ocean, a Great Lake, an inland freshwater lake, a river and a pool.  How awesome is that?  That alone has to qualify as some sort of excellence-in-vacationing milestone!  <\/p>\n<p>We did a *lot* of traveling this summer &#8212; the big trip out to Nova Scotia, a slightly less epic loop around Southern Ontario to visit two sides of the family, and lots of little day trips.  Oh how I love a good road trip!  And to their credit, the boys only twitch a little bit when they see me loading up the car again.<\/p>\n<p>And so, if swimming in salt- and fresh-water bodies isn&#8217;t your idea of a good time, here&#8217;s another way to measure excellence in summer vacations:  how many Tim Hortons did you visit?  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In the great summer of 2010 road-trips, aside from my usual Barrhaven and west-Ottawa Tims locations, we bought coffees and mocha iced-capps in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drummondville, QC<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3787168476\/\" title=\"196b:365 Canadian icons by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2642\/3787168476_4ecee4a8ee.jpg\" class=\"frame alignright\" width=\"281\" height=\"400\" alt=\"196b:365 Canadian icons\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Grand Sault, NB<\/li>\n<li>Moncton, NB<\/li>\n<li>Halifax, NS<\/li>\n<li>Lunenburg, NS<\/li>\n<li>Bridgewater, NS<\/li>\n<li>Saint John, NB<\/li>\n<li>Bristol, NB<\/li>\n<li>L\u00c3\u00a9vis, QC<\/li>\n<li>Morrisburg, ON<\/li>\n<li>Trenton, ON<\/li>\n<li>Georgetown, ON<\/li>\n<li>Aberfoyle, ON<\/li>\n<li>Clinton, ON<\/li>\n<li>Angus, ON<\/li>\n<li>Hunstville, ON<\/li>\n<li>Renfrew, ON<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phew, that&#8217;s a lot of coffee!  I wish I had some sort of passport so I could have collected stamps from all of them.  What, too obsessive?  I swear, I only used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planeteye.com\/maps?set=map.4068\">this map<\/a> to roughly locate a few for our trip out east! (For the southern Ontario loop, I used <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/timmyme\/id285921640?mt=8\">an app <\/a>for my iPhone.  Um, yeah, maybe just a weensy bit addicted.  But if you love Tims, it rocks!!)<\/p>\n<p>So, apparently in addition to a lot of swimming, we drank a lot of coffee this summer.  *blush*<\/p>\n<p>How &#8217;bout you? What&#8217;s your measure of a summer well spent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know summer isn&#8217;t really over yet, but I&#8217;m back at work now and my holidays are over. Even though it&#8217;s a little less than a month until the boys go back to school, Beloved&#8217;s holidays are also more or less over after next week. So, even though there is plenty left of the summer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/measuring-summer-by-cup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Measuring summer by the cup&#8221;<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-away-we-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}