{"id":6615,"date":"2024-07-24T18:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T22:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2024-07-24T18:26:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T22:26:31","slug":"no-major-events-this-weekend-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=6615","title":{"rendered":"No major events this weekend, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unfortunately it looks like nothing is happening this weekend when it comes to record conventions or Comic conventions. But at least we now know <strong>all four hobbits<\/strong> will be at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacomiccon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Comicon<\/a> in September, along with <strong>Monty Python<\/strong>&#8216;s own <strong>John Cleese<\/strong> and Mr. <strong>T-1000<\/strong> himself, <strong>Robert Patrick<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shawn Astin<\/strong>, <strong>Billy Boyd<\/strong>, <strong>Dominic Monaghan<\/strong> and <strong>Elijah Wood<\/strong> will host \u201c<strong>An Evening in the Shire with the Four Hobbits<\/strong>\u201d on September 7th, 2024 at 8pm at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eycentre.ca\" target=\"_blank\">EY Center<\/a>, which is of course located next to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/yow.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa\/Macdonald\u2013Cartier International Airport<\/a> and serviced by three major bus routes, <strong>Route 97<\/strong>,  <strong>Route 99<\/strong> and <strong>Route 197<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><center><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d6777.618664830184!2d-75.66016284262433!3d45.33161649790694!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4cce085aec421d2f%3A0xc05e1050b9acaea4!2sEY%20Centre!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sca!4v1721857969435!5m2!1sen!2sca\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two nearest hotels to this venue are also at the airport, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/u8B4p4StbKAuT7av6\" target=\"_blank\">Hilton Garden Inn<\/a> and the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/u3MbupZk8qsQoo4r6\" target=\"_blank\">Fairmount Inn &amp; Suites Ottawa Airport<\/a>, which are a 12 minute walk away from the venue. But three additional hotels can be found a short, four minute drive up <strong>Uplands Drive<\/strong>, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kWwrQEVUbj2jV64L7\" target=\"_blank\">Holiday Day Inn Express &amp; Suites<\/a>,  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/JrsYwRogGoh6PAdSA\" target=\"_blank\">Hampton Inn by Hilton<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/6xUt3SBaxjSQmpR38\" target=\"_blank\">Homewood Suites by Hilton<\/a>, which are serviced by <strong>Route 197<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You should note that <strong>Route 197<\/strong> is a bit of a milk route but it brings people to the venue&#8217;s doors within 33 minutes and is safer that walking down the stretch of Uplands Drive in-between the venue and the hotels, which has no sidewalk and very little lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Safety first!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, the <strong>5,000 PC Optimum Points<\/strong> bonus on $50 <strong>Google Play<\/strong> gift card purchases at participating <strong>Shoppers Drug Mart<\/strong> and <strong>Pharmaprix<\/strong> stores will end on Friday, July 26th, 2024 and these points will be added to your account 2 to 4 weeks later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately it looks like nothing is happening this weekend when it comes to record conventions or Comic conventions. But at least we now know all four hobbits will be at the Ottawa Comicon in September, along with Monty Python&#8216;s own John Cleese and Mr. T-1000 himself, Robert Patrick. Shawn Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[1498,1526,562,682,1527,1528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}