Back from HM. Home sick. Have pics with Sascha!

rhodesign

Hi all!
I'm back from a lovely HM in Napa/Sonoma and Vegas! Ate too much. Drank even more. Won a little money.

Whadidimiss?

Oh, and here's a pic to entertain you: the lovely saschaduran and myelf in Vegas! She's a total sweetheart and way cute! She let me try on Manolos!

nda_roxybabe

Very cute!

AlexiaANDRobert

Aww! Great pic!  Sounds like you had fun!

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Where did you go in Napa? I'm trying to get FI to go there this fall. Specifically just to go to French Laundry.

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Welcome back!

rhodesign

Thanks ladies!
Msmery--we didn't make french laundry this time, but perhaps next trip. If you're going this fall, make reservations now, even if you have to cancel. I hear they take 6 months.
We were told to try Buchon, which is owned by the same people but cheaper. yeah...didn't make it there either!

As for wineries in Napa, we went to Darioush, Plumpjack, Frog's Leap, V. Sattui, Castello di Amorosa, Frank Family and...I think that's it. We also went to Calistoga for volcanic ash baths (they're known for mud baths as well) and massages. I'm now addicted to hot stone massage...

I thought Sonoma was way prettier, but we also just went to one vinyard (Viansa) and did a day trip to Point Reyes and Lagunitas brewery.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Thanks for the recs! I know, I really want to plan a trip there around going to French Laundry, but I'm afraid of not being able to get reservations. Apparently it is like trying to call and win tickets from a radio station. No one ever gets through. Lagunitas brewery sounds great. I've had some of their beer and FI and I are always up for more beer tasting and brewery tours.

rhodesign

There are quite a few microbreweries around there! We also went to Calistoga Inn and brewery--very tiny, not so much a brewery with a big pub as a small inn that happens to have micro brews. Silverado brewery is right next to a vinyard in Napa as well. Lagunitas is in Petaluma, which is just outside of Sonoma. Very cool beer garden.

polichik

Welcome back, lady!

sarah0725

Oooh, V. Sattui. Their madeira has haunted me ever since I was there last November... I think I'm going to have to visit my brother again soon and then go back and get some.

ZRex

Sascha looks like a prettier version of the receptionist from The Office (Erica?).

mandysmear

Sascha is MY internet girlfriend.  Don't you forget it.  Same with Smokey.  We're internet manage a trois. 

Yay!  Glad you had fun.  I didn't get a chance to try on manolos because we had too much going on the last couple days we were there.

smokeybailey

Hee hee, Mandy....I will probably see Sascha this weekend.  But you know you are my Canadian heart!

I need to email that girl....

mandysmear

Aw, smokes.  How I love thee.

shellydiane820

That's too much sauciness for one photograph.

rhodesign

Awww, but Mandy, can't I have her just one time? One time is all I ask!

saschaduran

Hey, hey ladies....there is enough of *this* to go around.  And who says I am limited to menage a trois?  I will take on a whole room full of you hot knotties!!

God, I have barely been on here...I have been meaning to post pics of my GTG with rho.  She is awesomeness and sexiness.  We also met for drinks on my lunch break and I pretended my water was a vodka soda.