{"id":1742,"date":"2008-10-20T08:28:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T06:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2008-10-20T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T06:33:25","slug":"canadian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/1742","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rotterdam<\/a><\/p>\n

My parents have been here now for a week and a half.\u00a0\u00a0 I have three days left with them before we get up and put them on a plane\u2026 not something I am looking forward to.\u00a0\u00a0 I am looking forward to getting back to our old routine, as I\u2019m sure my parents are\u2026 but the airport scene always sucks.\u00a0 I always want to get it overwith really quickly, which is weird because I should want every last minute I can with them, but those last few minutes can get really tense with the trying not to cry and all that.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been having a great time.\u00a0 We\u2019ve done some sightseeing type stuff and a fair bit of shopping but for the most part we\u2019ve mostly just been spending time together, which is nice.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been here a number of times so they\u2019ve done the whole touristy thing.<\/p>\n

As you can see above, one thing they have done before but were keen to repeat was the Saturday market here in Rotterdam.\u00a0\u00a0 Spot the Canadian!\u00a0 Mom may have managed to blend in but no way in hell dad was.\u00a0\u00a0 With all the Dutchies walking around in their winter coats these days, dad got a few weird looks going around in shorts.\u00a0\u00a0 In his defense though, it was 20 degrees\u2026 so I\u2019m not sure why they still wore their winter coats anyway.\u00a0 It\u2019s like once October hits it\u2019s winter and that\u2019s just that.<\/p>\n

\"Kinderdijk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We also visited Kinderdijk again<\/a> which I\u2019ve been to a number of times but still couldn\u2019t stop myself from snapping photos of.\u00a0\u00a0 I figured it\u2019d give mom and dad that real feeling of where they are.\u00a0 What says Holland more than windmills?<\/p>\n

\"Canadian<\/a><\/p>\n

Last Sunday they got to meet some of my friends, which was great.\u00a0 I\u2019m always talking to my friends about my parents, and to my parents about them\u2026 so I thought it\u2019d be nice to get everyone together, and what better excuse than Canadian Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n

\"Canadian<\/a><\/p>\n

It was my first time cooking for so many people, but thankfully I had my mom there to help and Penny took care of all of the baking (omg, best cake ever).\u00a0 I got a huge turkey which was almost 17 lbs and had a ham as well.\u00a0\u00a0 Unlike Ramona<\/a>, this turkey wasn\u2019t as keen to spread her legs for me to stuff her.\u00a0 So, we named her Prudence.\u00a0 Not sure why we always name our turkeys, I\u2019m sure Peta would be disgusted that we give names to animals just before we put them in the oven.<\/p>\n

Sunday we went to Diergaarde Blijdorp<\/a>, but I haven\u2019t gotten those pics off my camera yet.\u00a0 It was a beautiful day for the zoo though and we all really enjoyed it.\u00a0 I always forget how huge it is until I get there again.\u00a0\u00a0 I was bummed to see that the gorillas were inside, because it\u2019s quite dim in there and they have this shadowed glass between the crowd and the gorillas and a gate that keeps you away from the windows, so you can\u2019t see them that well.\u00a0 I guess we can thank this lady<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today we are off to Corpus<\/a>, which I\u2019ve been really keen to see but saved until my parents were here because I thought they\u2019d find it really cool as well.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll be posting pics of that later as well.<\/p>\n

Ok, that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 Hope everyone is enjoying the nice fall weather we\u2019ve been having here, we certainly are!\u00a0 Even though it\u2019s made my parents completely disbelieve every word I\u2019ve ever said about the horrible winter weather over here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My parents have been here now for a week and a half.\u00a0\u00a0 I have three days left with them before we get up and put them on a plane\u2026 not something I am looking forward to.\u00a0\u00a0 I am looking forward to getting back to our old routine, as I\u2019m sure my parents are\u2026 but the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,255,87,35,124,256,33,244,73,258],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","tag-autumn","tag-blijdorp-zoo","tag-food","tag-friends","tag-kinderdijk","tag-market","tag-netherlands","tag-parents","tag-rotterdam","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}