{"id":4105,"date":"2016-10-04T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2018-12-27T08:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T13:34:47","slug":"burlington-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/04\/burlington-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington, with friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nancy,<\/a>

Nancy, Jett, Roger and Zelda on Church St<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank God for family and friends. We might have never seen Burlington this summer had we not had guests. I have already reported on the visit by Jett’s sisters<\/a>. More recently we spent a very pleasant afternoon with my college roommate, Roger, and his lovely wife Nancy. It was a day when Jett was feeling well enough to walk a bit, so we met Roger, Nancy and their dog Zelda in downtown Burlington and spent some time exploring. We found the waterfront – both the elevated park above the lake and the park and commercial area at the shore – and had a very nice early dinner at a sidewalk restaurant.<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/a>

Ben & Jerry corner<\/p><\/div>\n

We started with a stroll up the Church St pedestrian mall, which is, I think, the heart of Burlington. It is a great place to people-watch, have lunch and shop. Being Vermont, it has a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop which, appropriately, is located on Cherry St (with an sign that suggests that it is actually “Cherry Garcia St.).<\/p>\n

There is also a rather unique water fountain nearby. Looks like a prop from Rollerball<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The First Unitarian Church anchors the northern end of Church St. Beautiful structure.<\/p>\n

\"Water<\/a>

Water fountain<\/p><\/div>\n

\"First<\/a>

First Unitarian<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Roger<\/a>

Roger and Zelda<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Battery<\/a>

Battery Park<\/p><\/div>\n

After Church St we wandered down to Battery Park, which overlooks Lake Champlain, then strolled down to the Waterfront Park. I fortified myself with a maple-flavored “creemie” (soft-serve ice cream), then we fought our way back uphill to Church St. We finished with a late lunch\/early dinner at Ri R\u00e1 Irish Pub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Roger and Nancy, for giving us a reason to see this beautiful city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank God for family and friends. We might have never seen Burlington this summer had we not had guests. I have already reported on the visit by Jett’s sisters. More recently we spent a very pleasant afternoon with my college roommate, Roger, and his lovely wife Nancy. It was a day when Jett was feeling … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-places","category-vt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-14d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}