{"id":8323,"date":"2013-06-18T07:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T12:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2016-08-14T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:36:08","slug":"family-fun-this-weekend-thomas-the-tank-engine-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/18\/family-fun-this-weekend-thomas-the-tank-engine-in-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Family fun this weekend: Thomas the Tank Engine in Ottawa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>e are old skool Thomas the Tank Engine fans. We have Thomas Lego, Thomas books, a Thomas ride-on trike, Thomas stuffies, Thomas t-shirts, and two really big bins of wooden tracks and engines.  Tristan received his very first Thomas the Tank Engine wooden train for his first birthday a decade ago, and we&#8217;ve been hooked ever since.  One of my favourite family adventures ever was taking then three-year-old Tristan on a road trip to see<a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/tristans-day-out-with-thomas\/\"> A Day Out with Thomas<\/a> in 2005. He still talks about it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/28789177\/\" title=\"Whoa! by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/21\/28789177_742d8196d5_z.jpg?zz=1\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Whoa!\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not quite the same as A Day Out with Thomas, but this weekend the Thomas &#038; Friends Live Show is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlaurent-centre.com\/events.html \t\">coming to Ottawa<\/a>! If you&#8217;ve got wee fans in your house, you won&#8217;t want to miss this one. Thomas &#038; Friends Live will be at the St Laurent Centre on Saturday June 22 and Sunday June 23.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take a ride to the island of Sodor when Thomas the Tank Engine rolls into town!  Sit back and enjoy, or get up and dance to the wonderful songs and music of Thomas &#038; Friends\u00e2\u201e\u00a2! Catch Thomas &#038; Friends\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 live on stage at St. Laurent Centre \u00e2\u20ac\u201c admission is free! There are two shows daily at 11am and 2pm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not in Ottawa, here&#8217;s a complete list of the Thomas and Friends Live tour dates and times (<a href=\"http:\/\/events.hitentertainment.com\/ca\/thomas-live-tour\/Thomas&#038;FriendsTour2013.pdf\">click here for a bigger version<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/thomas-385x500.jpg\" alt=\"thomas live schedule\" title=\"thomas live schedule\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"385\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/thomas-385x500.jpg 385w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/thomas.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 85vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget, you can get a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startmakingtracks.com\/\">personalized Thomas e-story <\/a>every month on the Start Making Tracks website. Lucas still loves these &#8211; and they&#8217;re free! (And I spent a little too much time on this site watching Thomas&#8217;s eyes follow my cursor. Just a wee bit creepy, IMHO!)<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosure: I am part of the Fisher-Price Play Ambassador program with Mom Central Canada and I receive special perks as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are old skool Thomas the Tank Engine fans. We have Thomas Lego, Thomas books, a Thomas ride-on trike, Thomas stuffies, Thomas t-shirts, and two really big bins of wooden tracks and engines. Tristan received his very first Thomas the Tank Engine wooden train for his first birthday a decade ago, and we&#8217;ve been hooked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/18\/family-fun-this-weekend-thomas-the-tank-engine-in-ottawa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Family fun this weekend: Thomas the Tank Engine in 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":[73,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ottawa-family-fun","category-product-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323","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=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11936,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions\/11936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}