{"id":7458,"date":"2012-10-12T07:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T12:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2012-10-12T08:34:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T13:34:32","slug":"theres-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/12\/theres-an-app-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s an app for that"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>ay back in the day, I used to blog religiously every.single.day and while there was always fresh content on the blog, you’d get high quality content like, “I have nothing to say today. Come back tomorrow.” Now I’m much more of a capricious blogger, posting only when I’ve got something to say or the ten minutes required to say it (or ideally, the intersection of the two!) and the posts seem to come in energetic binges with droughts in between. I’ll let you make up your own mind on the quality issue. <\/p>\n

I’ve been trying to think of a blog post all week that isn’t about family travel but with our trip pending and all the final details falling in to place (or not, which will also make a great post one of these days!) travel is just about all I can think about.<\/p>\n

Packing for air travel and a cruise is a totally different beast than packing for our usual road trips. I’m very good at the latter and completely freaked out by the former. Not only do we have to be very economical with our packing (and we’re flying out on Delta, which makes you pay for every single checked bag) but we have to pack smart because we can’t just pop in to the local Shoppers Drug Mart and pick up what we’ve forgotten. Oh sure, there will be places to buy stuff on our mega-ship, but I’d rather spend my $20 on entertainment than a tube of tooth paste. <\/p>\n

So in addition to the sunscreen and the sandals and the shorts and the toothbrushes, I’ve been trying to figure out which electronic devices to bring. (And oy, what camera gear to bring, which may also merit a post of its own!) There’s about five hours of air travel altogether, and I’m thinking handheld games will come in pretty handy during the flights, let alone as distractions in the airport. While we will have, I am sure, no shortage of fun activities during the cruise, I do think it would be good to have the devices available for down time i.e. mommy needs to sit quietly on the balcony and look at the sea while drinking her morning coffee and you guys need to do something other than bicker with each other.<\/p>\n

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

(Yeesh, not only do I not blog regularly anymore, but it takes me forever to get to the point!)<\/p>\n

So here is what I am asking – can you suggest some fun iPod\/iPhone\/iPad apps that don’t require wifi to play? We have (and love) Angry Birds, but most of the kdis’ favourite games need an Internet connection. Got any others to recommend? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in the day, I used to blog religiously every.single.day and while there was always fresh content on the blog, you’d get high quality content like, “I have nothing to say today. Come back tomorrow.” Now I’m much more of a capricious blogger, posting only when I’ve got something to say or the ten … Continue reading “There’s an app for that”<\/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-7458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-away-we-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458","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=7458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7463,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions\/7463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}