Make a day of it (Short video)

The phrase of the day is: "Make a day of it"

• The idea behind this idiom is that instead of just spending a bit of time doing something that you’ve planned, you decide to use up the whole day or most of the day so that you can enjoy the whole time.
  [ --- If the weather’s nice, we’ll make a day of it and take a picnic. --- ]
  
• We can use it with "night", "evening", "weekend", too. (make a weekend of it)
  [ --- We wanted to drive up the coast, so we decided to make a weekend of it. --- ]