{"id":925,"date":"2007-07-31T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/vallentyne-wonderland-trip\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T16:57:52","slug":"vallentyne-wonderland-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/vallentyne-wonderland-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Vallentyne Wonderland Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Vallentyne family trip to Wonderland was a success and we are back in one piece.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, it seemed like a recipe for disaster.\u00c2\u00a0 We were heading for Toronto with 3 kids in the van, we didn&#8217;t leave on time (shocker there for us Vallentynes, I know) and I almost forgot the Wonderland tickets.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, despite that we had a great time, the trip was fine and the kids had a blast.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t grabbed the pictures yet to put up here, but trust me when I say the kids were tired and happy.\u00c2\u00a0 Jordy and I went on some of the &#8220;big kid&#8221; rides together, including one at the waterpark which was the winner for all of us.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember what it was called, something to do with &#8220;Barracuda&#8221; but the gist of it is that you are a turd being flushed down a humungous toilet.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;ll have to take my word that this is much more fun than it sounds, even Nikki enjoyed it and she is not so kicked on rides.\u00c2\u00a0 I think her comment was that she felt safe on it, despite the obvious speed and the impending threat of drowning.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s hoping I never completely figure her out, it&#8217;s more fun that way.<\/p>\n<p>Also, big kudos to Nanny for achieving the impossible:\u00c2\u00a0 Cael is now potty trained.\u00c2\u00a0 Yep, I&#8217;m not to proud to say that he defeated me completely.\u00c2\u00a0 He actively resisted that for way longer than I thought possible, but Nanny beat him.\u00c2\u00a0 Not literally, I don&#8217;t think, although that would explain how she did it so quickly&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 I kid, I kid.<\/p>\n<p>So there you go folks, a little update on the family Vallentyne for ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Vallentyne family trip to Wonderland was a success and we are back in one piece. At first glance, it seemed like a recipe for disaster.\u00c2\u00a0 We were heading for Toronto with 3 kids in the van, we didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/vallentyne-wonderland-trip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-eV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}