{"id":663,"date":"2009-07-11T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2012-04-18T17:49:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:49:52","slug":"victoria-willows-beach-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/victoria-willows-beach-and-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria &#8211; Willow&#8217;s Beach and other things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we went to Willows Beach as a group. And I loved it. It was around 6pm, and still sunny, but not too hot. However, the water was COLD. I saw a few people jumping in, full body, and I though I could feel my own muscles cramping up in empathy.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Victoria 2009 by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4484692280\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4031\/4484692280_497fab5c9d.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria 2009\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a perfect evening to lay around on the beach and read or nap.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Me at Willow Beach by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/7091621467\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5194\/7091621467_faf871705f.jpg\" alt=\"Me at Willow Beach\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing that I love about the University of Victoria is their vegan food options, and the staff&#8217;s willingness to ask what is in things for me. I&#8217;m the annoying girl, &#8220;is there butter in this?&#8221; &#8220;what is this?&#8221; &#8220;is there dairy?&#8221; I believe they have also upped their vegan options for my visit, which goes to show, it pays to ask in advance.<\/p>\n<p>I was worried once I learned I&#8217;d be eating in residence, because a limited menu for someone else, becomes an exercise in creative meal planning for me. Am I getting enough protein, vitamins, fat from the food I&#8217;m eating? Stuff I need to consider. So I emailed Food Services, and someone replied with let us know when you&#8217;ll be here and we&#8217;ll make sure you are taken care of. They normally have a vegan &amp; vegetarian residence dining hall on campus. How amazing is that?<\/p>\n<p>The other day I ate a flakey pastry vegan sausage roll type thing from the salad bar. And they always have soy milk availible in the mornings for my ceral. And they&#8217;ve started making vegetable &amp; hummus sandwiches. hurrah.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"University of Victoria - Vegan Pastry Rolls by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/7091615741\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5453\/7091615741_2d9c57b375.jpg\" alt=\"University of Victoria - Vegan Pastry Rolls\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like obviously, it&#8217;s not <a title=\"Cafe Bliss Key Lime Pie\" href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/victoria-cafe-bliss-and-green-cuisine-7509\/\">Cafe Bliss keylime pie<\/a>, but it&#8217;s really good anyway. Anyway, I&#8217;m having a great time, and learning a lot while I&#8217;m here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we went to Willows Beach as a group. And I loved it. It was around 6pm, and still sunny, but not too hot. However, the water was COLD. I saw a few people jumping in, full body, and I though I could feel my own muscles cramping up in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[497,489,496],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victoria","tag-vegan-food-at-uvic","tag-victoria-2","tag-willows-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}