{"id":7138,"date":"2012-07-10T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2012-07-10T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T15:18:59","slug":"summer-family-fun-doesnt-have-to-break-the-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/summer-family-fun-doesnt-have-to-break-the-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer family fun doesn’t have to break the bank!"},"content":{"rendered":"

F<\/span>irst, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to say hello and welcome if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stopping by after this morning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s segment on CBC Ottawa Morning<\/a>. Hi! It was a great honour to finally meet Robin<\/a>, Dave <\/a>and my co-speaker Chris, aka Canadian Dad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you missed it, we were talking about the cost of summer with kids. Vacation season is great, but it sure can be pricy. I brought up this topic on Facebook yesterday, and one parent mentioned she and her husband are actually taking consecutive vacations to help minimize the cost of daycare and camps while the kids are out of school. That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even broach the idea of a $250 day at your favourite water park, or even a $75 afternoon at the movies.<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/a><\/p>\n

I think the city of Ottawa offers some great low-cost and free alternatives for families. I just enrolled the boys in a city-run camp in our community for $160 per kid for a week, which is not outrageous compared to some of the specialty camps I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen. (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really glad that Beloved can be home with the kids for most of the summer!)<\/p>\n

At our local library, there are some really neat free workshops on Wednesday afternoons, if you want to get in out of the sun for a while. Head back outdoors to one of the dozens of free splash pads and wading pools operated by the city. Many of them even offer free swim lessons, crafts and other free programing. A few years back, I made up a big list of 40 free family activities<\/a>, most of which are still available. (Note to self, time to revisit and update that post!)<\/p>\n

Speaking of old posts, I did an entire series last summer on fun family activities in Ottawa<\/a>, and family fun in general<\/a>. I hope to add a few more in the next few weeks when my vacation officially starts.<\/p>\n

\"Fun<\/a><\/p>\n

You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to break the bank to have a fun summer right here at home. What are your family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favourite summer excursions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to say hello and welcome if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stopping by after this morning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s segment on CBC Ottawa Morning. Hi! It was a great honour to finally meet Robin, Dave and my co-speaker Chris, aka Canadian Dad. If you missed it, we were talking about the cost of summer with kids. Vacation season is … Continue reading “Summer family fun doesn’t have to break the bank!”<\/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":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ottawa-family-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138","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=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7142,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}