{"id":186,"date":"2023-04-16T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/?p=186"},"modified":"2023-04-16T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:16:50","slug":"the-first-couple-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/the-first-couple-of-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"The first couple of hours&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was so comforting being able to hold my daugther in my arms again after 7 months but it made me forget where I was and how long I had travelled to arrive in Stephenville. Like Toronto, I rented an Airbnb with the difference that this place was for me alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 minutes before Fleur arrived I pulled into the street and recognized the house from the pictures. The key was with a key-lock system accessable with a code that was provided via the Airbnb app so that I was able to check-in without any people present. The house is a two bedroom fully equiped Airbnb and has everything I need to make myself comfortable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_editor_output_image255830872-1681647328782-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_editor_output_image255830872-1681647328782-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_editor_output_image255830872-1681647328782-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_editor_output_image255830872-1681647328782-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_editor_output_image255830872-1681647328782-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_editor_output_image255830872-1681647328782-2048x1358.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_editor_output_image255830872-1681647328782-2000x1326.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fleur also wanted me to meet her host family and we immidiatley went over to get aqcuinted. It&#8217;s a two minute drive from my Airbnb and we pulled up in the street of what I experience as typical Canadian Cottages and parked my car on the driveway of the family. The family was already coming out of their home to meet me on the porch. I got a really warm welcome and we took at seat at the kitchen table with a cop of coffee. I obviously took the Stroopwafels out and handed them over as a small token of my appreciation. I instantly was their best friend \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an hour or so me and Fleur decided to have some dinner together with one of her friends (Braydon). Fleur and the daughter-in-law of the host family (Dereka) did their best to search a nice restaurant in another town which was an hour away. The restaurant however was a disaster. My burger was overcooked, Braydon his Fisch and Chips had a funny taste (read: disgusting) and Fleur her steak was also overcooked. So we paid the bill and drove back to Stephenvill where Fleur and Braydon went out to see some friends and I was able to setlle down in my Airbnb and process the various experiences from my first day in Stephenville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was so comforting being able to hold my daugther in my arms again after 7 months but it made me forget where I was and how long I had travelled to arrive in Stephenville. Like Toronto, I rented an Airbnb with the difference that this place was for me alone. 10 minutes before Fleur &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/the-first-couple-of-hours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The first couple of hours&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familie-devos.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}