{"id":205,"date":"2010-08-25T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T17:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/?p=205"},"modified":"2010-08-26T19:43:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T02:43:44","slug":"day-24-visit-with-mom-and-clams-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/08\/25\/day-24-visit-with-mom-and-clams-for-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 24 &#8211; visit with Mom and clams for dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 24th<\/p>\n<p>We went to visit Mom again and had another great day for her.\u00a0 She perked up the minute she saw us and stayed up for the whole visit. Here are some photos from that visit:\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-slideshow\"\n\t id=\"ngg-slideshow-b88dc7be63c46f3e298c3379abd98ef4-20913723200\"\n     data-gallery-id=\"b88dc7be63c46f3e298c3379abd98ef4\"\n     style=\"max-width: 800px; max-height: 600px;\">\n\n \t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-slideshow-image\" style=\"height:600px\">\n\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/gallery\/visitwithmom\/IMG_5319.JPG\"\n           title=\"\"\n           data-src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/gallery\/visitwithmom\/IMG_5319.JPG\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/gallery\/visitwithmom\/thumbs\/thumbs_IMG_5319.JPG\"\n           data-image-id=\"160\"\n           data-title=\"IMG_5319\"\n           data-description=\"\"\n           class=\"shutterset_b88dc7be63c46f3e298c3379abd98ef4\">\n\n            <img data-image-id='160'\n                 title=\"\"\n                 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src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/gallery\/visitwithmom\/IMG_5324.JPG\"\n                 style=\"max-height: 580px;\"\/>\n        <\/a>\n\n        <\/div> \n<div id=\"ngg-image-5\" class=\"ngg-gallery-slideshow-image\" style=\"height:600px\">\n\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/gallery\/visitwithmom\/IMG_5326.JPG\"\n           title=\"\"\n           data-src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/gallery\/visitwithmom\/IMG_5326.JPG\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/gallery\/visitwithmom\/thumbs\/thumbs_IMG_5326.JPG\"\n           data-image-id=\"165\"\n           data-title=\"IMG_5326\"\n           data-description=\"\"\n           class=\"shutterset_b88dc7be63c46f3e298c3379abd98ef4\">\n\n            <img data-image-id='165'\n                 title=\"\"\n                 alt=\"IMG_5326\"\n                 src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/gallery\/visitwithmom\/IMG_5326.JPG\"\n                 style=\"max-height: 580px;\"\/>\n        <\/a>\n\n        <\/div> \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_207\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_5332.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-207\" title=\"IMG_5332\" src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_5332-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_5332-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_5332-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie&#39;s dairy at Randall&#39;s Farm in Ludlow, MA - the best ice cream<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We took the kids for ice cream in the middle of the afternoon &#8211; you cannot believe the quality of this ice cream &#8211; just an appetizer for dinner&#8230;really.\u00a0 The ice cream is made right there at Elsie&#8217;s and the ingredients are as rich as you can imagine.\u00a0 It is part of Randall&#8217;s Farm in Ludlow, MA.<\/p>\n<p>My brother Leonard came to visit for dinner.\u00a0 Clams at Alexander&#8217;s Restaurant in Ludlow, Mass. were on my wish list so we went there.\u00a0 I had the &#8220;whole belly&#8221; fried clam dinner that has become a tradition part of my visits &#8220;home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_206\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_5333.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-206\" title=\"IMG_5333\" src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_5333-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dinner at Alexander's Restaurant in Ludlow\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_5333-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_5333-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinner at Alexander&#39;s Restaurant in Ludlow<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We looked around for a good seafood restaurant in the area and they are actually becoming hard to find.\u00a0 Alexander&#8217;s Restaurant is a small place with all booths &#8211; some large enough for 6 normal friendly people.\u00a0 Here is a photo of the five of us &#8211; taken by the waitress &#8211; waiting for our seafood dinners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a 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Here are some photos from that visit: We took the kids for ice cream in the middle of the afternoon &#8211; you cannot believe the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/08\/25\/day-24-visit-with-mom-and-clams-for-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/08\/25\/day-24-visit-with-mom-and-clams-for-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"armand","author_link":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/author\/armand\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}