{"id":543665,"date":"2008-06-05T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/06\/05\/awesome-mini-break\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:28:00","slug":"awesome-mini-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/06\/05\/awesome-mini-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Mini Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We decided to join DH for a business trip to Vancouver\/Portland.&nbsp; We had such a fabulous time!&nbsp; Here are the highlights&#8230;<br \/>\n<u><strong>Day One<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriott.com\/hotels\/travel\/pdxvs-springhill-suites-vancouver-columbia-tech-center\/\">SpringHill Suites<\/a> -Indoor Pool for swimming and free breakfast<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osf.com\/\">The Old Spaghetti Factory<\/a> -first time for the boys<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovebigals.com\/\">Big Al&#8217;s Bowling<\/a> &#8211; Coolest bowling alley ever!&nbsp; We had a blast !!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Day Two<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofvancouver.us\/police.asp?policeID=31531&amp;policeSubID=31539&amp;itemID=32572\">Vancouver Police Department-East Precinct<\/a>&nbsp; &#8211; There was a park and attached to the park was the police station.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8216;A&#8217; idolizes policemen and wanted to go inside to say &#8216;hi&#8217;, so we ended up chatting with &#8216;Corporal Ford&#8217; for about 20 minutes before going to the park to play.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/disneypictures\/narnia\/\">Prince Caspian-<\/a>&nbsp;&#8216;A&#8217; and I loved the movie.&nbsp; It was a little long for&nbsp;&#8216;R&#8217;&nbsp; <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/portland\/FoundIt?restaurant=415272\">Cha Taqueria and Bar<\/a>&#8211; We walked around Portland&#8217;s Alphabet District after dinner.&nbsp; I love that neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Day Three and Four<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countrycousinrestaurant.com\/\">Country Cousin&#8217;s Restaurant<\/a>&#8211; This is a favorite road trip restaurant of DH and mine. Their door crows at you when you open it.&nbsp; A first time for the boys.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatwolf.com\/\">Great Wolf Lodge<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; OH YEAH!!&nbsp; The boys were completely overwhelmed for the first few hours, but we ended up having so much fun, we decided to stay an extra night.&nbsp; This is a chain, so if there is one near you, check it out.&nbsp; We ate in the lodge restaurant for all our lunches and dinner because the food was so good.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiquest.com\/\">Magiquest<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; This was in the hotel.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8216;A&#8217; was completely immersed in it.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8216;R did OK, but his attention span was not quite there yet.<\/p>\n<p>No pics yet. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We decided to join DH for a business trip to Vancouver\/Portland.&nbsp; We had such a fabulous time!&nbsp; Here are the highlights&#8230; Day One SpringHill Suites -Indoor Pool for swimming and free breakfast The Old Spaghetti Factory -first time for the boys Big Al&#8217;s Bowling &#8211; Coolest bowling alley ever!&nbsp; We had a blast !! Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}