{"id":30611,"date":"2026-07-19T00:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/?p=30611"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:11:26","slug":"haute-goat-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/haute-goat-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Haute Goat III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may recall Haute Goat I which was related to Trevor&#8217;s birthday, then Haute Goat II which was a weekend getaway in the rentable cabin on the site.  This year Mumtaz, Sam, Trevor and I went to Haute Goat for Fathers&#8217; Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haute Goat is Southern Ontario&#8217;s premium goat experience; it is a farm near Port Hope, Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since the Fathers&#8217; Day St. Catharines Duck Race was cancelled by the Kiwanis Club a few years ago, we have celebrated Fathers&#8217; Day on a weekend close to but not precisely on Fathers&#8217; Day.  This year we celebrated on the week after.  We started with a great brunch in a restaurant near Sam and Trevor&#8217;s apartment.  We then rushed to Haute Goat because Sam and Trevor had booked a &#8220;shmergle&#8221; for us and you must absolutely be on time for a shmergle. The goats love the shmergle, they are released from the pen to graze in open fields; the humans get to chase them around, then help them getting back to there homes afterwards.  Later, we spend time in a sort of play area.  There is a great restaurant, we loved the goat soft ice cream. We finished the day with a meal at our favourite Chinese restaurant.  As always thanks to Mumtaz, Sam and Trevor for planning everything.  As odd an activity as this seems, it is a great family afternoon which we highly recommend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/v\/c\/97139356ea52d5ed\/IQCOSzx73mclR6Xcsn3desdgAWqervcXL3EfwhlNnP_QSb4?e=OdXpHR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> for the slide show, it will take over 7 minutes to view so be prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click on the photo below for the photos.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/f\/c\/97139356ea52d5ed\/IgAcwMv2lquQQKTiP6oB3_A5AQ6KN8J_bvO7gI1LLGRedJ4?e=q2e7eT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/display-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/display-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/display-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/display-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/display-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/display-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/display-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall Haute Goat I which was related to Trevor&#8217;s birthday, then Haute Goat II which was a weekend getaway in the rentable cabin on the site. This year Mumtaz, Sam, Trevor and I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-333","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30611"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30621,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30611\/revisions\/30621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}