California- Day 2 (part 1)

Day 2 of the ♥Honeymoon re-do♥ was purely for this girl! —I was so pumped and had no idea what to expect!  (hopefully some of this though ;)… ) 

Wine tasting! ....First one ever!

We started out at Chateau St. Jean! It was a great way to start…. Simply beautiful… Everywhere I looked it was beautiful! 

I loved taking in the sights!

We were there early enough that we were the ONLY ones there! (snicker if you must, but I was drinking wine at 10 AM for sure!!!)  The wonderful old man pouring our wine was a gem, loved him!  It was nice that our first tasting was peaceful and just the two of us.

Perfect for a wedding, don't you think?! ...Or a vowel renewal? 😉

We walked around for a while and just took in our first views of WINE COUNTRY! We wrapped things up at Chateau St. Jeanand headed to Kenwood Vineyards! It was just a little ways down the road and I heard they wanted to please there and would help us each find a wine that we would love. Thought we would give it a try. 

Such a cosy and personal feel inside. Not too big, I liked that.

We walked in starting sipping away! I found a few too many wines that I loved ♥! …They sold me on a drink to be shipped to my house …so I could relive the joy. I’m such a sucker! –I don’t regret it! I liked Kenwood Vineyards quite a bit, the wine was interesting and they had a wide array of things!

…On to Sonoma!  

The view on the way to Sonoma!

We arrived in Sonoma and I loved the small town feeling I got! So pretty to have a town with this kind of backdrop! Oooo-la-la! 🙂

We ate a small lunch at the Sonoma Cheese Factory and I got some home-made fudge. Pretty darn tasty if you ask me!  Then while walking around we found this great mureal on the side of a building. The husband offered to take a picture of me infront of it…… THEN a really nice young lady came by and offered to take a picture of the both of us! I didn’t even have to ask! –BAMMMM! Take that husband who HATES pictures 😉

Loving Valley of the Moon ....sorry husband, I couldn't leave you out of alllll the pictures. Just for the next couple of days? Be patient? Please? ..... Had to sneak this one in because I just love you. That's a fact.

We–okay, okay I– decided to do a quick tasting while in town! I enjoyed this tasting a whole lot because the woman pouring the wine was not concerned with how many drinks were in a flight but  more about finding out what I liked and why I liked it!! I found it crazy that I could LOVE one chardonnay and HATE another chardonnay.

While I was tasing, the husband tried his hand at some photography. Top notch, husband. Top notch!

Such fun!

With some simple cropping and editing, this is a masterpiece by the husband himself! Great work! He had to do this, I was waaay too busy sipping away. 

I realized I HAVE to split this into TWO posts, there was just too much goodness that I wanted to relive to put it into just one post, part II of Day 2 will be tomorrow! 🙂

Question: Have you ever been wine tasting? Did you learn anything interesting?