Ahhhhhhh.....Napa

Ahhhhhhhhhh.....Vacation.... I love it.... truly, truly love it. I had a much better time on the trip than anticipated. I let go of the apprehensions I had with the "girls weekend/birthday trip" with Weeny and Weeny's mom. I wanted to enjoy myself, and wants the point of dropping a pretty penny if I wasn't going to enjoy the trip??

On to the pictures...first let me apologize for the sizing of these bad boys. I don't know why they are all funky. I'm not a technical person, but I think I saved them weird and now they are posting funky.

Weeny, Weeny's mom and I did the Napa Wine Train for lunch one day. It was a fairly costly at $120 per person, but it was a pretty ride through the wine country and an unbelievably delicious four course lunch that was well worth the indigestion I wound up suffering afterwards.

I forgot to take pictures of salad and dessert. The salad was an oversight on my part and the dessert was consumed too fast.

I stomped some grapes at Grgich. It felt a little nasty at first. Then I embraced the squishy feeling and had fun with it.

Here's Weeny stomping....

The vineyards have amazing gardens. Weeny and I are garden people. It was heaven. I couldn't stop taking pictures of flowers and the scenery.

We also did a scenic drive. And saw some redwoods... To say they were massive is a serious understatement.

We also went to the ocean. It wa very overcasty, so the pictures weren't as great as I had hoped, but it was still great. At one drive off, I walked down a path to get closer to the ocean. I would have actually touched the water had there been enough time to walk the rest of the way down, but some one was a stop watch nazi and only allowed for so many minutes per stop....I'm not bitter about that at all, I swear....

Here's the nazi, I mean Weeny taking a picture of me from the car

And we went to Safari West. It's a great animal preserve. The tour was great. We saw lots of giraffes, zebras, antelope, gizelles, cows, other horned creatures, rhinos, lemurs, wild kitties, and a crap load of birds...if you don't like birds, this not the place for you.

Oh look....a penis.....

That's a short recap of the trip...there are over 300 pictures between me and Weeny, and I don't want to bore...but Napa really is beautiful. It really makes you question if you are in California or in Italy at times.

Rock out-

The end....