{"id":5486,"date":"2022-08-07T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2022-08-07T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:05:21","slug":"european-vacation-day-3-caen-memorial-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-day-3-caen-memorial-museum.html","title":{"rendered":"European Vacation Day 3: Caen Memorial Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-44.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-44-1024x769.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-44-1024x769.png 1024w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-44-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-44-768x577.png 768w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-44-1536x1154.png 1536w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-44.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Our daily selfie in front of the Caen Memorial Museum. War veterans receive free admission, and students are only \u20ac5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">19 July 22: We started our day at the Caen Memorial Museum. We are (a) grateful for the air conditioning, (b) in awe of the gorgeous exhibits, and (c) fascinated by the telling of the stories with a French point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We will see if we do anything else after this. It&#8217;s dangerously hot for any of the outdoor activities we were planning today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-45-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-45-1024x768.png 1024w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-45-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-45-768x576.png 768w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-45-1536x1152.png 1536w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-45.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-46.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-46-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5489\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-46-1024x768.png 1024w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-46-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-46-768x576.png 768w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-46-1536x1152.png 1536w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-46.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 July 22: We started our day at the Caen Memorial Museum. We are (a) grateful for the air conditioning, (b) in awe of the gorgeous exhibits, and (c) fascinated by the telling of the stories with a French point of view. We will see if we do anything else after this. It&#8217;s dangerously hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-1qu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5491,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-day-3-caen-memorial-museum-part-2-longue-sur-mer.html","url_meta":{"origin":5486,"position":0},"title":"European Vacation Day 3: Caen Memorial Museum Part 2 &#038; Longue-sur-Mer","date":"07 August 22","format":false,"excerpt":"The boys asked to be awakened early so they could hit the market and bakery to pick up breakfast and dinner food. Unfortunately I overslept so they did too. 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