{"id":7019,"date":"2012-05-30T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2012-05-30T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:27:18","slug":"weekend-family-fun-dickinson-days-in-manotick-and-doors-open-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/weekend-family-fun-dickinson-days-in-manotick-and-doors-open-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend family fun: Dickinson Days in Manotick and Doors Open Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> have been eying the weather forecast with suspicion all week. Not only do I have a portrait shoot scheduled this Saturday, but there are a LOT of fun family things to do that involve a lot of outdooryness, which is really not going to be as much fun in the pouring rain.  So forecast, smarten up, okay?<\/p>\n<p>Last year was our first &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manotick.net\/dickinsondays\/\">Dickinson Days<\/a>&#8221; in Manotick.  We knew there would be a little parade, and a few vendors in Dickinson Square. We did not know that it was an all-out amazing summer festival!  I still remember laughing as we walked from our house toward Manotick Main Street and joined throngs (no, really!) of people streaming out of their houses doing the same thing.  It&#8217;s not exactly Wellington Street on Canada Day, but it&#8217;s definitely the scale model.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the Dickinson Days parade looked like last year:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/5796065797\/\" title=\"162:365 Dickinson Days Parade by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2477\/5796065797_b070e485c7.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"162:365 Dickinson Days Parade\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aside from the parade (6:30 pm on Friday June 1) there will be a crafter&#8217;s market, live entertainment, a pancake breakfast, a kids&#8217; fishing derby, horse drawn wagon rides, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manotick.net\/dickinsondays\/\"> much more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend is also <a href=\"http:\/\/ottawa.ca\/en\/rec_culture\/museum_heritage\/celebrations\/doors_open\/\">Doors Open Ottawa<\/a>, and Watson&#8217;s Mill, Dickinson House, St James Anglican Church and the Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind training ground in Manotick are some of the featured locations.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to run out of weekend before I run out of fun things to do this weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been eying the weather forecast with suspicion all week. Not only do I have a portrait shoot scheduled this Saturday, but there are a LOT of fun family things to do that involve a lot of outdooryness, which is really not going to be as much fun in the pouring rain. So forecast, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/weekend-family-fun-dickinson-days-in-manotick-and-doors-open-ottawa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend family fun: Dickinson Days in Manotick and Doors Open Ottawa&#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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postcards-from-manotick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019","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=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}