{"id":44,"date":"2012-06-07T23:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T03:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-03-14T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T21:55:34","slug":"departure-day-beaune-france-thursday-june-7-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Departure Day:  Beaune, France &#8211; Thursday, June 7, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are in the Plaza Airport Lounge at Pearson, sipping 2 glasses of Canadian Chardonnay and enjoying some quiet pre-boarding time with an assortment of snacks. If all goes well, we&#8217;ll be Paris-bound in about 2.5 hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC0003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36\" src=\"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC0003-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0003\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC0003-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC0003.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/001-Steve-at-Pearson-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/001-Steve-at-Pearson-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"001 Steve at Pearson 2\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/001-Steve-at-Pearson-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/001-Steve-at-Pearson-2-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/001-Steve-at-Pearson-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like 16 years ago, we are pretty stressed and tired and looking forward to a relaxing adventure in France.\u00a0 But, unlike the last time, when we were running a business and figuring out how to keep it running while we were overseas, it&#8217;s our puppy, Chaos, who is giving us some grief.\u00a0 Months after we booked this holiday that we were both so excited about, Chaos, who is 10.5, was diagnosed with kidney disease.\u00a0 He stopped eating about 2 weeks ago.\u00a0 Steve has spent an incredible amount of time and energy researching and trying all sorts of food combinations to tempt him, with the help of the vet &#8211; some have worked some haven&#8217;t.\u00a0 Last Sunday, we asked Nick to bring Brook over to see if any competition would help, which it did a bit, so we kept Brook for 3 more days.\u00a0 That, in combination with an anti-depressant, seems to be working well enough to keep Chaos going while we&#8217;re away.\u00a0 It was a tough decision to leave him, but he&#8217;ll continue to be with Brook, and Nick and Edith will take good care of him.\u00a0 Yelena will monitor him and make any decisions on our behalf.\u00a0 So here we are, leaving on our holiday, but not quite as excited as we were expecting to be.<\/p>\n<p>A little over 2 hours later and we&#8217;re airborne.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been cruising along the US side of the St Lawrence River &#8211; easily identifiable.\u00a0 Looks like we&#8217;re heading up into NFLD, then straight across the Atlantic.\u00a0 We are on our way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are in the Plaza Airport Lounge at Pearson, sipping 2 glasses of Canadian Chardonnay and enjoying some quiet pre-boarding time with an assortment of snacks. If all goes well, we&#8217;ll be Paris-bound in about 2.5 hours. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Like <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=44\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaune","category-france"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}