{"id":3047,"date":"2014-07-29T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T23:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2014-07-29T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T23:37:30","slug":"adventure-week-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/29\/adventure-week-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure Week, Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3053\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cascade-bay-generic.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3053\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cascade-bay-generic.jpg?resize=330%2C248&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cascade Bay (generic image)\" width=\"330\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cascade-bay-generic.jpg?w=330&amp;ssl=1 330w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cascade-bay-generic.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cascade Bay (generic image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For our second daily adventure this week, we sailed to\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Cascade Bay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofeagan.com\/index.php\/cascade-bay\" target=\"_blank\">Cascade Bay<\/a>, a water park not far from here. We&#8217;d never been before, and it was a home run. Griffin was allowed on all the slides\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d his\u00c2\u00a0first time having 100% access to everything at a mixed-age park. And he&#8217;s a strong enough swimmer now that he can get himself out of the pool (even the deep one) unassisted. \u00c2\u00a0This makes all things watery soooo much more relaxing. We only have to worry about one kid drowning if we blink our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie loved the zero entry pool with its mini-slide and was very brave, going down the slide without holding hands and jumping into the &#8220;deep&#8221; end. She was sad not to go on the slides, but understood that they might be scary, &#8220;like the tilt-a-whirl.&#8221; (Ding! I hoped\u00c2\u00a0there would be a positive lesson from yesterday&#8217;s mistake.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3049\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10346519_10152242077302997_2199066284575490986_n.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3049\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10346519_10152242077302997_2199066284575490986_n.jpg?resize=220%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"&quot;I not tired!&quot;\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10346519_10152242077302997_2199066284575490986_n.jpg?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10346519_10152242077302997_2199066284575490986_n.jpg?w=704&amp;ssl=1 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I not tired!&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We stayed for a solid five hours; fun for all of us. Alas, no personal pictures from the park \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the one above is from their promo site. 1) It&#8217;s a water park, and our camera doesn&#8217;t like water. 2) We locked my phone in the locker. 3) I would feel like a creep\u00c2\u00a0snapping shots with my telephoto lens in front of\u00c2\u00a0a million kids in swim suits. (And I wouldn&#8217;t like the guy on the next lounger doing it either.) So you just get to imagine the fun. But we did get a pic of Maggie collapsing on the couch afterwards, moments after proclaiming, &#8220;I not tired!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our second daily adventure this week, we sailed to\u00c2\u00a0Cascade Bay, a water park not far from here. We&#8217;d never been before, and it was a home run. Griffin was allowed on all the slides\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d his\u00c2\u00a0first time having 100% access to everything at a mixed-age park. And he&#8217;s a strong enough swimmer now that he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/29\/adventure-week-day-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adventure Week, Day 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","category-maggie","category-photo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}