{"id":10,"date":"2007-06-02T22:43:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T05:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-06-02T22:43:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T05:43:39","slug":"a-little-day-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"A little day trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone is in the midst of a nice, relaxing weekend.\u00a0 Today we decided to go on a little trip to one of our favorite locations&#8230;.Colonial Williamsburg.\u00a0 When we lived closer, this\u00a0was our #1 destination\u00a0 for a stroll with the dogs and a nice picnic in the field.\u00a0 Today was beautiful and sunny, the perfect day to show the boys around the historic buildings and homes.\u00a0 Our tradition is to stop in to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrellis.com\/\" title=\"Trellis Restaurant\">The Trellis <\/a>restaurant in Merchants Square\u00a0to pick up sandwiches for our picnic.\u00a0 We also tried a fairly new place for picnic goodies, The Cheese Shop, which is filled with gourmet treats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"absMiddle\" width=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.ontheline.com\/desserts\/pics\/marcel.gif\" height=\"192\" style=\"width: 190px; height: 192px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back to The Trellis&#8230;this\u00a0is a\u00a0well-known local favorite, home of the original &#8220;Death by Chocolate&#8221; dessert.\u00a0\u00a0 The co-owner, Marcel Desaulnier is a master of decadent desserts and several cookbooks.\u00a0 To complete our lunch, I had to pick up a few cookies aptly\u00a0named &#8220;Absolutely Deep Dark Chocolate Fudge Cookies&#8221;.\u00a0 We enjoyed our picnic, fed the squirrels and birds, played\u00a0 frisbee, climbed on the humongous old trees, took lots of photos,\u00a0visited a pair of gentle horses, and strolled through the gardens.\u00a0 Then as a special treat before our ride home, we made another traditional stop at Wythe Candy and Gourmet Shop.\u00a0 Here the boys picked out their favorite unique gummies, and I picked up some fudge.\u00a0 What a fun day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the jewelry front,\u00a0be on the lookout for some\u00a0new pieces\u00a0I&#8217;ll be adding to\u00a0 the shop&#8230;.here&#8217;s a little hint&#8230;silver\u00a0wire work and lampwork!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone is in the midst of a nice, relaxing weekend.\u00a0 Today we decided to go on a little trip to one of our favorite locations&#8230;.Colonial Williamsburg.\u00a0 When we lived closer, this\u00a0was our #1 destination\u00a0 for a stroll with the dogs and a nice picnic in the field.\u00a0 Today was beautiful and sunny, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}