{"id":152,"date":"2006-07-08T22:15:38","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T04:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=153"},"modified":"2006-07-08T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T04:15:38","slug":"adventures-in-regina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Regina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 summers ago, I took my kids on an &#8216;adventure&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 We packed a lunch, parked at the train bridge, headed across and went exploring.\u00c2\u00a0 We walked to Innovation Place and along the Meewasin trail, had a picnic lunch along the way and had a lot of fun.\u00c2\u00a0 The kids\u00c2\u00a0remember it\u00c2\u00a0and still talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was about time for another &#8216;adventure&#8217;, so I told the kids we were going to have one this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 They thought we were going to do what we did 2 years ago and head for the train bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 But I wanted to have a &#8216;super adventure&#8217; with them.\u00c2\u00a0 So I popped them in the car and drove to Regina.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a picnic lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wascana.sk.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Wascana Park<\/a>, and then spent the entire afternoon at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sasksciencecentre.com\" target=\"_blank\">Saskatchewan Science Centre<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a blast!\u00c2\u00a0 I introduced the kids to their first IMAX movie (Matthew kept saying it was as if the theatre had turned into an airplane).\u00c2\u00a0 By the way, this was a &#8216;mom and the boys&#8217; adventure, which is important for us to do from time to time.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re staying in Regina overnight and will do some more exploring tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0I should do stuff like this more often.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0My parents didn&#8217;t do those kind of things with me when I was young.\u00c2\u00a0 My dad was always busy with the farmwork.\u00c2\u00a0 I did go on a few major trips with my grandparents and my aunt and uncle and I still remember them to this day.\u00c2\u00a0 I think family trips and excursions are important.\u00c2\u00a0 It gets you out of the everyday routines.\u00c2\u00a0 They create fond memories that last a lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 summers ago, I took my kids on an &#8216;adventure&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 We packed a lunch, parked at the train bridge, headed across and went exploring.\u00c2\u00a0 We [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=152\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}