{"id":50,"date":"2010-02-06T01:23:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T09:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-05-02T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:52:49","slug":"heading-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Heading North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We journeyed up to the wilds of the Northwest Territories to show our girls their origins. Emily was born in Yellowknife, so we showed her around the city she first laid eyes on. She is also named after the Aurora, so we got to show her first-hand what that is all about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/auroraFamily.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-135\" title=\"Aurora borealis\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/auroraFamily-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/auroraFamily-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/auroraFamily.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope she&#8217;ll remember it better this time around. We stayed at a great B &amp; B; the Blue Raven. The owners, Tessa and Mike Macintosh, are wonderful hosts and we would recommend this place to anyone. They have 2 great bedrooms that have lofts above for the kids. I wasn&#8217;t overly impressed by the lack of hardiness as my two year old refused to walk the 5km jaunt from Old Town to Downtown in the -30 temps, but a cab saved the day and brought us to our favourite northern culinary treat: Arctic Char Nigiri at Sushi North in Yellowknife. YUM!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_0891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-133\" title=\"Arctic Char nigiri\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_0891-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_0891-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_0891.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some time was spent hanging out with our friend, Franko, who just happened to be in town at the same time. We also made a visit to the Northern Cultural Museum, with highlights of the dress-up area for kids with an old trapper&#8217;s cabin and wall tent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_0906.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-134\" title=\"Northern mama\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_0906-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_0906-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_0906.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We journeyed up to the wilds of the Northwest Territories to show our girls their origins. Emily was born in Yellowknife, so we showed her around the city she first laid eyes on. She is also named after the Aurora, so we got to show her first-hand what that is all about. I hope she&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7],"tags":[3,22,459,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}