{"id":1283,"date":"2015-08-02T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2015-08-02T23:03:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T03:03:54","slug":"champagne-on-champlain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Champagne&#8221; on Champlain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy first anniversary to us! <\/p>\n<p>We chose to spend our anniversary in Burlington, Vermont, which I keep calling Cumberland for some reason. What&#8217;s the difference?<\/p>\n<p>We took train 69 (tee hee) out of New York and got off (tee hee) at Port Kent, New York. From there we took a ferry across Lake Champlain to &#8220;Cumberland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mid-lake, I decided we needed refreshments. I intended to get a couple Diet Cokes, but when I saw they were serving up low quality beer, I opted for the Labatt&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Labatt&#8217;s&#8221; &#8211; That&#8217;s Canadian for champagne. <\/p>\n<p>We drank our beer and my wife produced two fortune cookies from her purse. Yes, on your first anniversary you are supposed to open fortune cookies on a boat. With beer. <\/p>\n<p>I opened my cookie and saw my &#8220;Learn Chinese&#8221; word. It was &#8220;BEER!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That has to be a good fortune without even reading the fortune, right?  What are the chances of getting &#8220;beer&#8221; while you&#8217;re drinking beer?? And on a BOAT! <\/p>\n<p>Lest you think I made up this whole story, here are pictures to prove it. <\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1283 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1275\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1275'>\n\t\t\t\tThis is a boat. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image2-e1438568540678.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image2-e1438568540678-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1277\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1277'>\n\t\t\t\tLabatt&#8217;s &#8211; It&#8217;s Canadian for champagne \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image5-e1438568476676.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image5-e1438568476676-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1280\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1280'>\n\t\t\t\tMy good fortune\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1278\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1278'>\n\t\t\t\tThis is also a boat. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1279\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1279'>\n\t\t\t\tThis is not a boat. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy first anniversary to us! We chose to spend our anniversary in Burlington, Vermont, which I keep calling Cumberland for some reason. What&#8217;s the difference? We took train 69 (tee hee) out of New York and got off (tee hee) at Port Kent, New York. From there we took a ferry across Lake Champlain to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=1283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Champagne&#8221; on Champlain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}