{"id":373,"date":"2018-04-05T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:00:07","slug":"abc-date-nights-c-is-for-a-collection-of-curiosities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/abc-date-nights-c-is-for-a-collection-of-curiosities\/","title":{"rendered":"C is For A Collection of Curiosities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We arrived at the third if our twenty six themed dates feeling a little more confidant<\/em> about our creativity<\/em>.\u00a0 Even though it was March, it remained very cold<\/em>. \u00a0We knew this would be another inside date. \u00a0Our first stop was as a consignment<\/em> store. \u00a0This particular store carries high quality items and is always a joy to look around. \u00a0We found many nice things but didn’t find much that we felt that we needed.<\/p>\n

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The next stop was at the Candle<\/em> Factory. \u00a0This business has occupied their beautiful, century<\/em> old\u00a0building since 1971. I often forget to stop in here for unique gifts.\u00a0 From the website, I found an interesting thought about candles,<\/em> “Over the past thousand years the flame of the candle transcended its role as lighting to become a symbol of many of mankind\u2019s higher values: the personal qualities of truth, wisdom, knowledge, learning, remembrance, hope, love, peace and faith; and community qualities of commemoration, unity, liberty and freedom.”\u00a0 It makes me\u00a0realize that our trip to this location holds more meaning than just a casual<\/em> shopping experience.\u00a0\u00a0Alan bought me a gift of a beautiful Calla Lily candleholder<\/em> to represent my flower for this date.\u00a0 It will become a treasure to add to my collection<\/em> of home decor. We also found a couple of nice gifts for others.<\/p>\n

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Because all dates should include chocolate<\/em>, our next destination was to a store called Chocolate Exotica<\/em>. We definately boosted the economy in this location! \u00a0We found lots of handmade chocolates<\/em> to add to our sons Easter baskets. Then we filled our own cravings<\/em> by purchasing all the C themed confections<\/em> we could find…caramels, cherry and champagne filled chocolates<\/em> were our favorites. \u00a0We couldn’t wait until after dinner to try our candy<\/em> so we sat in the car<\/em> and filled our cravings<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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Next, we headed to our favorite coffee <\/em>house for a cappachino<\/em> and a cuddle<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our curiosity<\/em> finally satisfied, our last stop was for dinner at Chili’s<\/em>.\u00a0 Alan always chooses chicken<\/em> at this location, I however broke our C themed date and ordered pizza!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We arrived at the third if our twenty six themed dates feeling a little more confidant about our creativity.\u00a0 Even though it was March, it remained very cold. \u00a0We knew this would be another inside date. \u00a0Our first stop was as a consignment store. \u00a0This particular store carries high quality items and is always a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}