{"id":54,"date":"2006-06-26T20:58:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T00:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitstep.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/back-from-a-cottage-weekend-of-fun\/"},"modified":"2006-06-26T22:26:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T02:26:21","slug":"back-from-a-cottage-weekend-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/back-from-a-cottage-weekend-of-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from a cottage weekend of fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the weekend with friends up at Megagh&#8217;s (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/mugs-24.livejournal.com\/\">Meaghan<\/a>) cottage, and boy, was it a fun, but sore weekend.  Being with friends is always nice, especially after being cooped up in the lab with a bunch of computers all week.  But, it&#8217;s even better when it&#8217;s up at a cottage with plenty of outdoor stuff to do.  Brought my camera along, and managed to get <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/54568836@N00\/sets\/72157594178676030\/\" title=\"Pictures on Flickr\">some pics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/54568836@N00\/175871025\/\" title=\"Lake Waka-wata-something...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/66\/175871025_af75d5e403.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Lake Waka-wata-something...\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t consider myself an outdoors person, but I value any chance I get to spend at a friend&#8217;s cottage.  Nothing&#8217;s better than a nice camp fire after a hard day&#8217;s spent&#8230; well, doing nothing but relaxing.  Going for pontoon-boat rides was very relaxing, and for the most parts, the stars made themselves visible, adding to the weekend.  Also took my first try at water skiing, and all I have to say is that I&#8217;m grateful to have patient friends!  I tend to suck at anything aquatic-related (I can barely swim), and it must have taken me 10 tries or more to finally get up on them, but when I did it was a great feeling; now I just need to work on <em>staying<\/em> up.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>We also went for some cliff-jumping, which is an exhilarating experience.  I managed not to hurt myself, but this didn&#8217;t matter since I was plenty sore from the rest of the weekend.  Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/54568836@N00\/sets\/72157594178676030\/\" title=\"Photos on Flickr\">rest of the photos<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/54568836@N00\/175871104\/\" title=\"cliff jumping\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/54\/175871104_58de2be1d9.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"cliff jumping\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the weekend with friends up at Megagh&#8217;s (aka Meaghan) cottage, and boy, was it a fun, but sore weekend. Being with friends is always nice, especially after being cooped up in the lab with a bunch of computers all week. But, it&#8217;s even better when it&#8217;s up at a cottage with plenty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}