{"id":331,"date":"2009-07-20T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=331"},"modified":"2009-07-20T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:58:00","slug":"prince-edward-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/prince-edward-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/pei1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traveled to Prince Edward Island yesterday. I made a quick visit about 4.5 years ago in the winter to visit some friends, but otherwise I hadn\u2019t been in more than 20 years (I think).  The bridge is less than 45 minutes away from my father\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<div>Our first stop was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/eng\/lhn-nhs\/pe\/greengables\/index.aspx\">Green Gables<\/a>. I wasn\u2019t keen on paying $7.80 to walk the grounds of a fictional character, so I didn\u2019t. Plus, it&#8217;s not like Megan Follows is wandering around. Amber\u2019s sister April went in and we hung out on the lawn with the kids. April confirmed that I didn\u2019t miss much.<\/p>\n<div>We continued our trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northrustico.net\/\">North Rustico<\/a> where Amber had determined that there was a festival happening with lots of activities for FREE. (Yes, I\u2019m cheap) (One of my spiritual gifts is voluntary poverty) We ate at a local pizza joint called Amanda\u2019s Restaurant. I tried fried clams for the first time. The festival was a great discovery. The kids did a treasure hunt, had their faces painted, won prizes, painted oyster shells, played in the sand, enjoyed a children\u2019s performer and the playground. Blaise even got on stage during the performance on his own to get a secret code name from Michael Pendergast (he&#8217;s the nephew of Father Pendergast according to a guy I sat next to).<\/p>\n<p>We returned to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/pn-np\/pe\/pei-ipe\/index_E.asp\">Prince Edward Island National Park<\/a> to see Cavendish Beach. The beach itself isn\u2019t as nice as our local one de l\u2019Aboiteau, but the red cliffs and dunes are gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/pei2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instead of eating supper with the family, I spent an hour at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripleys.com\/index.php\">Ripley\u2019s Believe it or Not<\/a>. Some amazing stuff for sure \u2013 and some sad stories too, like the one about the tallest man and the people who traveled around as freaks. <\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/pei3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>What is still amazing to me is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederation_Bridge\">Confederation Bridge<\/a> that spans 12.9 kms from NB to PEI. I think it is just one of the most beautiful structures ever built.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/pei4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/pei5.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traveled to Prince Edward Island yesterday. I made a quick visit about 4.5 years ago in the winter to visit some friends, but otherwise I hadn\u2019t been in more than 20 years (I think). The bridge is less than 45 minutes away from my father\u2019s house. Our first stop was Green Gables. I wasn\u2019t keen &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/prince-edward-island\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,20,28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-331","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-canadiana","9":"category-food","10":"category-nature","11":"category-technology","12":"category-travel","13":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}