{"id":406,"date":"2007-12-26T18:58:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=406"},"modified":"2007-12-26T18:58:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T17:58:41","slug":"my-kind-of-sleigh-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"My kind of sleigh ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tWe&#8217;ve just gotten back to the hotel and are trying to warm up after an hour-long ride in a horse-drawn carriage.  It was incredible.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe carriage picked us up at the hotel at 5&#8230; just at dusk.  The carriage seats are covered in fur, and the driver covered us up with blankets and more fur.  It seemed like a little much, after all we had on our coats and hats and mittens.  But it was fun anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\tWe rode along the side of the lake then climbed up the mountain.  There we were, riding behind two horses pulling us up a steep, narrow, icy path.  The view back down on the village of Arosa was beautiful.   Everything was blanketed in snow and the lights were twinkling in windows&#8230;. picture perfect.  (Of course, a picture doesn&#8217;t capture the odor included in riding behind a horse who deposits a little \u0093present\u0094 along the roadway.)<\/p>\n<p>\tI was surprised to see people sledding down the mountain in the dark.  Some just went down the road; I guess because it was lit.  That seemed just plain crazy to me.<\/p>\n<p>\tAs we were climbing up the mountain, Kaitlyn said she wanted the horses to go back down.   We put a scarf over her mouth and nose and got her to lean against me and that seemed to do the trick: she fell fast asleep.  We could barely wake her up when we got back to the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe hour in that carriage has to be one of the most memorable parts of this vacation.  It&#8217;s exactly what I imagined doing in a Swiss village at Christmastime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just gotten back to the hotel and are trying to warm up after an hour-long ride in a horse-drawn carriage. It was incredible. The carriage picked us up at the hotel at 5&#8230; just at dusk. The carriage seats are covered in fur, and the driver covered us up with blankets and more fur. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}