{"id":1185,"date":"2018-11-24T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T21:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2018-11-24T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T21:56:01","slug":"thanksgiving-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/24\/thanksgiving-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alice and I decided that rather than getting too caught up in Thanksgiving, we’d escape to a mini-vacation in Victoria, British Columbia.\u00a0 We’ve gone to Victoria a couple of times previously and always enjoyed our stays there.\u00a0 We took the Victoria Clipper up – a catamaran that runs at 30 knots which makes for a very pleasant 2 hours 45 minute journey and we love staying at the Fairmont Empress.<\/p>\n

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Empress at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We splurged and take a harbor view Gold room which provides access to the lounge and a variety of food and drink throughout the day and evening.<\/p>\n

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Of course, you can’t go to the Empress and not partake in “High Tea”.\u00a0 This is one of our favorite things to do and the spread never fails to satisfy, particularly with a glass of bubbly!<\/p>\n

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The town does a great job with their holiday lights and the government buildings look particularly impressive.<\/p>\n

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The ever-present totem pole in front of the BC government building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Alice also wanted to get into the holiday spirit so in addition to spending quite some time in a local holiday market (I figured out part way through that I would have enjoyed it better if I sampled each of the many craft wineries, distilleries and breweries represented there!), we also had to go to a ginger bread house display.<\/p>\n

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Not finished yet as we also went to a Christmas tree display in a shopping center, where I met an interesting bear.<\/p>\n

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I also thought it was interesting that they showed various cities where the British empire had expanded to including Brisbane, Australia – I felt right at home as I attended University there.<\/p>\n

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To cap off quite the tour of attractions, Alice insisted we visit Miniature World.\u00a0 This actually turned out to be more interesting than I thought it would be as they had a wide variety of exhibits from medieval times through to Star Trek and many times in between including the American Civil War, both world wars and various depictions of pioneer times.<\/p>\n

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Alice checks out an exhibit in Miniature World<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a great break for us and after another pleasant ride back on the Clipper and a schlep up the hill with our bags we were reunited with Josie the cat and glad to be home after an enjoyable time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice and I decided that rather than getting too caught up in Thanksgiving, we’d escape to a mini-vacation in Victoria, British Columbia.\u00a0 We’ve gone to Victoria a couple of times previously and always enjoyed our stays there.\u00a0 We took the Victoria Clipper up – a catamaran that runs at 30 knots which makes for a … Continue reading Thanksgiving in Canada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waynemorrisoz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}