{"id":242,"date":"2005-06-28T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2005-11-23T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2005-11-24T00:32:28","slug":"holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2005\/holiday.html","title":{"rendered":"Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rockies.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rocky Mountains\" title=\"Rocky Mountains\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We&#8217;re going to be taking a bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/holiday\" target=\"_blank\">holiday<\/a>. &nbsp;Just click the link if you&#8217;re not sure about what the word means. &nbsp;I had to look it up myself.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re heading to Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a 3 hour drive through the mountains from our home. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\" width=\"155\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><script language=javascript>var LocationID = 'CABC0559';<\/script><br \/>\n<script language=javascript src='http:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/weatherbutton\/wxbutton.js'><\/script><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking forward to some family time &#8211; maybe some hiking, swimming, whatever. &nbsp;It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve really had any time off, and we&#8217;re ready for it. &nbsp;I admit the weather doesn&#8217;t look all that spectacular (see the weather graphic to see what it is <b><i>right now<\/i><\/b>) (of course, if you live in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/weather\/cities\/can\/pages\/CAAB0049.htm\">Puvirnituq<\/a> that weather probably looks good. &nbsp;If you live in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/weather\/cities\/intl\/Pages\/UZXX0004.htm\">Tashkent<\/a> you probably feel very sorry for us.)<\/p>\n<p>Nathanael has been a little sick, so if you think of it pray for him (and pray that the rest of us will escape!). &nbsp;This is different than <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2005\/pray-for-nathanael-and-all.html\">whatever he had before<\/a>, but he was just over that when this one hit. &nbsp;Of course, generally he&#8217;s still pretty happy. &nbsp;He doesn&#8217;t know he&#8217;s supposed to be miserable all the time!<\/p>\n<p>On the 30th we&#8217;ll be back already, all set to work on the month-end paperwork, and head into the home stretch of preparations for our visit to Mexico. &nbsp;There&#8217;s still a lot to do &#8211; but we&#8217;ll do it when we get back! &nbsp;See you then.  \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>PS <i>After writing this, I took a closer look at the weather, and it might not be that bad after all. &nbsp;But who cares? &nbsp;We&#8217;re really not that picky!<\/i> :laugh: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going to be taking a bit of a holiday. &nbsp;Just click the link if you&#8217;re not sure about what the word means. &nbsp;I had to look it up myself. 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