Saturday, May 3, 2008

Wine Tasting Birthday Party

The Hylands were lucky enough to celebrate their friend Joy's birthday.........Wine Country style! The limbusine was rented and the crew made the 9:00am departure from SF with bagels for the base and mimosas served by Graham to welcome the morning.


The first winery visited was Pellegrini Family Vineyards in Sonoma. We all made sure to purchase a Pellegrini bottle of wine as we were "hooked up" by knowing a member of the family. Here's Cat and Cam posing with their friend Brad at the tasting of some of the most delicious wine ever known to man (shameless plug).


Mimosas chased with Pinot Noir got everyone comfortable with each other as the limbusine ventured a half mile down the road to Harvest Moon Winery. The Winery had set up a nice outside tasting area hosted by an interesting Harvest Moon employee who had very suggestive nicknames for the wines. Cam remembers liking the "Nooner" the best which we think was a Zinfandel. After our second tasting, the group photo was inevitable.


We then had Jeeves drive us to beautiful downtown Healdsburg for lunch at Bear Republic Brewery. Although Cam didn't particularly enjoy his chicken sandwich describing it as "overly microwaved" to the waiter, the beer was fantastic. Especially after drinking foo-foo wine all day. Needless to say, the limbusine drive home was rather eventful. Here's Cat and Cam playing their favorite game called "Swap your Sunglasses & Take a Picture":


Gary flashed Natasha his best Blue Steel as the party bus rolled on home to the Biggity Bay.

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