{"id":658,"date":"2015-08-19T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=658"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T14:29:35","slug":"keep-those-doggies-rollin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Keep those doggies rollin"},"content":{"rendered":"

We enjoyed a brief respite at home on Monday. The day was mostly spent preparing the next, eastern, leg of our journey. I also did a great deal of cooking. For dinner, we had salmon, salad, fresh corn, and potatoes, with carrot cake for dessert. I make a mean carrot cake. We were stuffed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, we packed Mama off to work and packed up the car again. Shortly after lunch, in the hot thick humid afternoon, we set out. It started to rain almost immediately, which did nothing to lessen the oppressive heat, but forced us to close the windows. No, the air conditioning is still not fixed. Who has the time? We cruised along the 401 east in a mobile sauna, simmering in our own juice and rubbing little clear circles in the steamy windows so we could see where we were going. Mostly we were going from someplace wet to someplace wetter.<\/p>\n

We had outrun the rain by the time we reached Cobourg and the ever-popular Big Apple restaurant\/factory\/attraction. The kids had passed out from heat stroke so I had to wake them with promises of bunnies and treats. Everybody should wake up that way. We spent an hour and a half ogling desserts and candy, but mostly playing mini-golf. Both Those Johnston Kids consider a putter a kind of flattish driver, so my more nuanced touch won the day again. At least the course was not as laughably impossible as the one at the Thunder Bay KOA. We held our heads, and small apple pie, up proudly at the 18th hole.<\/p>\n

The rain caught up to us just about then, so it was back to the car and squinting through maniacally waving wipers. Our route left the 401 at Belleville to go north-east through the more interesting farm communities. We made it to our destination, Fitzroy Provincial Park, as night and yet more rain fell. I stuffed Those Johnston Kids with leftover salmon sandwiches, veggie chili, and carrot cake. Baby Girl and I did our best to sleep in the cacaphonous downpour but Short Pants was out like a light. That boy can sleep anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We enjoyed a brief respite at home on Monday. The day was mostly spent preparing the next, eastern, leg of our journey. I also did a great deal of cooking. For dinner, we had salmon, salad, fresh corn, and potatoes, with carrot cake for dessert. I make a mean carrot cake. We were stuffed. On … Continue reading Keep those doggies rollin<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}