{"id":505,"date":"2023-12-24T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2023-12-24T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:22:17","slug":"advent-day-23-look-at-christmas-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/24\/advent-day-23-look-at-christmas-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 23 &#8211; Look at Christmas Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s the weekend before Christmas and we are all struggling to stay healthy.  We&#8217;re trying to make it along the final stretch with our Christmas Spirit in tact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was feeling terrible last night so I went with a very simple elf set-up: the elf sitting on Santa&#8217;s knee for a little pre-Christmas chat.  Next year I will definitely have a few of these simple ideas in my back pocket, just in case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9623-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Maileg pixy and Maileg Santa\" class=\"wp-image-499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9623-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9623-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9623-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9623-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9623-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s activity was to go to the grandparents for Christmas dinner and then all go to a drive-through Christmas lights show.  It was my first time going to see this kind of event and it was fantastic!  We went to the Magic of Lights in Ottawa and there was about a 20 minute line up to get through the gate and then the lights drive took about 20-40 minutes.  A perfect activity for a drizzly night with kids not feeling their best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9654-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"barbie christmas lights\" class=\"wp-image-500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9654-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9654-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9654-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9654-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9654-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9659-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"drive thru Christmas lights\n\" class=\"wp-image-501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9659-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9659-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9659-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9659-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9659-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9677-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Magic of Lights Ottawa\" class=\"wp-image-502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9677-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9677-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9677-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9677-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9677-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the weekend before Christmas and we are all struggling to stay healthy. We&#8217;re trying to make it along the final stretch with our Christmas Spirit in tact. I was feeling terrible last night so I went with a very simple elf set-up: the elf sitting on Santa&#8217;s knee for a little pre-Christmas chat. Next &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/24\/advent-day-23-look-at-christmas-lights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Day 23 &#8211; Look at Christmas Lights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,61,6,43],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-activityadvent","tag-drivethruchristmaslights","tag-kidsadvent","tag-mailegchristmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}