{"id":1841,"date":"2010-07-15T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2010-07-15T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T04:27:19","slug":"day-one-july-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1841","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: We&#8217;re off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prelude<\/strong><br \/>\nWell we missed Bastille Day. Tired, grumpy, panicking and packing. No matter we will re-enact the day after when everyone had hangovers and guilt. We can do that.<\/p>\n<p>Today we are off; the plan is on to Jasper and relax then on to Kamloops and relax and then on to Vancouver. Oddly enough, this the first time Leslie and I have gone to Vancouver via Jasper &#8211;other than that debacle with the broken radiator&#8211;better to say the first time we&#8217;ve done it in a leisurely manner.<\/p>\n<p>Zak&#8217;s been toodling around London and I suspect playing a lot of cards. We hear something about his doings pretty much everyday on Facebook, but no pics yet. Rem is there now but I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;ve met up.<\/p>\n<p>T minus 2 hours&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have lift-off<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(to be continued)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/p_2048_1536_6C4A9204-9CE9-45CA-A32D-4C14416991DB.jpeg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/p_2048_1536_6C4A9204-9CE9-45CA-A32D-4C14416991DB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere around Hinton, Carmen lost her bra. It&#8217;s a mystery. So we had to stop for her to redress herself. Apparently dressing isn&#8217;t something she can do in a car. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/p_2048_1536_B2E03683-5766-4883-89FF-5AE8CE83DC4D.jpeg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/p_2048_1536_B2E03683-5766-4883-89FF-5AE8CE83DC4D.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our room in Jasper wasn&#8217;t ready so they bought us a free beer at the magic beer machine. Mmmmmmm. <\/p>\n<p>Next up is some groceries, some dinner, some sauterne and some post Bastille shenanigans. Hopefully C can keep her clothes on. <\/p>\n<p>Groceries ensued and Bruce hacked up a chicken while  L @ C lolled. Later after Bruce queried where all the booze was, to which Leslie replied &#8220;what do you need booze for?&#8221;, Carmen piped in with the one-liner of the day: &#8220;look, AADAC, what holiday are you on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/p_2048_1536_359D779A-53EF-42CA-B9B8-EAAB3B5C1CFE.jpeg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/p_2048_1536_359D779A-53EF-42CA-B9B8-EAAB3B5C1CFE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A walk around Pyramid Island, a cruise through town with a stop to get some cherry  chocolates from the Candy Bears Liar took us home for a round of skipbo and beer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prelude Well we missed Bastille Day. Tired, grumpy, panicking and packing. No matter we will re-enact the day after when everyone had hangovers and guilt. We can do that. Today we are off; the plan is on to Jasper and relax then on to Kamloops and relax and then on to Vancouver. Oddly enough, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}