{"id":25318,"date":"2018-08-01T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25318"},"modified":"2018-08-01T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T18:48:27","slug":"weekend-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/weekend-delights\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Delights: Zootinis, Pear Picking, Strawberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/coolcal.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While hundreds of thousands in California are heading for the beach or a <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/list\/5454\/m1287?variation=orig&amp;page=1&amp;sort=activityName\">theme park<\/a>, other great attractions, festivals and events offer exciting options for weekend entertainment. Here are just a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Monster auditions for Dark Harbor Halloween attraction (pictured.) Bring your best groans &amp; growls, plus specialty acts of juggling, singing, magic, fire dancing, poi, acrobat, cyr wheel, silks, contortion, blockhead and Sliders.<\/li>\n<li>FELTON: Thomas the Train is back at Roaring Camp Railroads (pictured.)<\/li>\n<li>EUREKA: Zootino at Sequoia Park Zoo features mixing and mingling with animals, along with martinis (pictured.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/2018ag4.html\">More Weekend Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BELMONT SHORE: Belmont Pier Kids Fishing Derby welcomes boys and girls under age 16 years.<\/li>\n<li>BIG BEAR CITY:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/big-bear-city-renaissance-faire.html\">Big Bear City Renaissance Faire<\/a><\/li>\n<li>features fantasy entertainment for all ages.<\/li>\n<li>FOLSOM:\u00a0Wacky Dash obstacle course with mud pits, hay bale climbing walls, tire run and human car wash!<\/li>\n<li>FORT BRAGG:\u00a0Art in the Garden at Mendocino Coast Botanic Garden features\u00a0music, food, and wine &amp; beer tasting.<\/li>\n<li>FREMONT: Festival of the Arts held Downtown<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Fresno Chaffee Zoo&#8217;s Producers Ice Cream Zoofari<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: LA Zoo&#8217;s Brew at the Zoo features cold crafts and hot bands.<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Scottish Games &amp; Celtic Festival<\/li>\n<li>MORAGA: Pear Harvest, pitch in and pick fruit!<\/li>\n<li>RIO DELL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/rio-dell-wildwood-days.html\">Wildwood Days<\/a>\u00a0with games and foods that epitomize small town living.<\/li>\n<li>RUNNING SPRINGS: Mountain Top Days<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO:\u00a0Nihonmachi Asian Street Fair, or Chantey Sing<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/stanford-tennis.html\">Silicon Valley Classic<\/a> culminates with the face off of the best known faces in women&#8217;s tennis &#8212; or Ren Faire or County Fair<\/li>\n<li>STOCKTON:\u00a0Taste of the Delta<\/li>\n<li>WATSONVILLE: Strawberry Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While hundreds of thousands in California are heading for the beach or a theme park, other great attractions, festivals and events offer exciting options for weekend entertainment. Here are just a few: LONG BEACH: Monster auditions for Dark Harbor Halloween attraction (pictured.) Bring your best groans &amp; growls, plus specialty acts of juggling, singing, magic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25319,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25318\/revisions\/25319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}