{"id":334,"date":"2009-12-18T14:58:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T21:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2009-12-21T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:08:01","slug":"12-activities-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/12-activities-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Activities of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood for holiday festivities, here&#8217;s what I found in and around Vancouver:<\/p>\n<p>1. 2009 Gingerbread Competition at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bcbusinesshub\/sets\/72157622847007891\/\">Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Festival of Lights at VanDusen Botanical Gardens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourismvancouver.com\/visitors\/things_to_do\/events\/event-details?id=812\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Christmas at Canada Place <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christmas.canadaplace.ca\/christmas\/\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. Bright Nights in Stanley Park <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.ca\/Parks\/events\/brightnights\/index.htm\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5. Polar Bear Swim at English Bay <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.ca\/parks\/events\/polarbear\/2010\/index.htm\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6. The Peak of Christmas at Grouse Mountain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grousemountain.com\/Winter\/winter-activities\/vancouver-bc-family-Christmas-celebrations.asp\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7. Festival of Trees at The Four Seasons in Vancouver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcchf.ca\/main\/?vancouverFOT\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8. <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Singing Christmas Tree at Broadway Church <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwaychurch.com\/index.php?page=worship&amp;subsection=sct\">Info<\/a><\/span> GE Rink at Robson Square <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gereports.com\/at-vancouver-olympics-a-great-skate-on-newly-nice-ice\/\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9. Winter Solstice Lantern Festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretlantern.org\/\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10. Canyon Lights at Capilano Suspension Bridge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capbridge.com\/index.html\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11. Yuletide on Granville Island <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granvilleisland.com\/event\/yuletide-granville-island\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12. Shopping anywhere!<\/p>\n<p>If you do any of the above, please us know if you enjoyed it. I highly doubt I&#8217;ll be able to do all in the list, but I&#8217;ll definitely try to do them all and let you all know how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT (December 21st): At the time of the posting, I didn&#8217;t realize the Singing Christmas tree was over. I have replaced this event with another one. Sorry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood for holiday festivities, here&#8217;s what I found in and around Vancouver: 1. 2009 Gingerbread Competition at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver: Pictures 2. Festival of Lights at VanDusen Botanical Gardens Info 3. Christmas at Canada Place Info 4. Bright Nights in Stanley Park Info 5. Polar Bear Swim at English Bay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[204,203],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}