Lots of Wine: Vacations!

I've been on 2 trips in the past 2 weeks! Ryan and I went to Sonoma at the end of July for a little wine tasting and relaxing. He wanted to visit some wineries that are very small and up-and-coming. A couple of them already distribute their wines in Missouri, but a couple of them don't, and he is hoping that changes. Our wine tasting trips are not exactly like other people's wine tasting trips, he actually 'works'. We don't swallow very much wine, we spit most of it (unlike the girls we saw during lunch one day who were hammered from tasting wines all day). We ate at some wonderful restaurants - one in San Francisco called Dosa, which is a Southern Indian Restaurant. Different than a normal Indian Restaurant in that the cuisine is somewhat based around a Southern Indian tradition of Dosa's, which are puffy bread like things. It was wonderful. We also ate at a couple of great restaurants in downtown Healdsberg (Sonoma county). We couldn't have asked for better weather either.
My parents watched Lola for a whole week while we were gone! It was nice to have some alone time. When my parents picked her up from our house and took her to Fort Scott, this is the picture they sent us of the car ride home. Isn't my child amazing!? Look at the tricks she can do with her toes! Gross.... :)

Anyone want a cracker?

We stayed at Forth Winery in their guest house. This is one of their vineyards. They are a very small production winery.

Jann and Gerry Forth have sheep roaming their vineyards, and these are the dogs that watch over the sheep! Rather large eh?

So moving on to my 2nd trip, my future sister-in-law, Sara's, bachelorette party in Steamboat Springs, Co. It was a great time, although one more day there would have been nice. I had met Sara's sister Blake before, but not her older sister Becky or any of her friends. I knew her friends would be cool since she is, and I was right! It was great getting to meet everyone - there were 12 of us total. It will make the wedding so much more fun now that I know all of the bridesmaids and her close friends.