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\"img_1909\"<\/a>Keep in mind that I live in the Las Vegas, NV, area, which is quite a bit south of\u00a0Canada. \ud83d\ude09 Imagine my surprise and delight, therefore, when I saw these “tourists” during their\u00a0stopover here! I absolutely couldn’t resist pulling my car over and taking some pictures. There were dozens and dozens of these beautiful Canada geese enjoying a little park not far from my home. They apparently approved of the dining options in the park.<\/p>\n

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Keep in mind that I live in the Las Vegas, NV, area, which is quite a bit south of\u00a0Canada. \ud83d\ude09 Imagine my surprise and delight, therefore, when I saw these “tourists” during their\u00a0stopover here! I absolutely couldn’t resist pulling my car over and taking some pictures. There were dozens and dozens of these beautiful Canada […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1909.jpg?fit=640%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yzuO-tourists","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2719,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/on-to-vienna\/","url_meta":{"origin":2849,"position":0},"title":"On to Vienna","author":"Sandy","date":"August 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Sadly, we only had one day in Vienna -- I wish we'd had a few more! 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