Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Fall Vacation Part 3 : Napa, CA

I went from Yukia (oops, Ukiah) to Napa to meet up with Alden, Trenton and Denise - all of whom I'd never met in person....  

We went to Castle Di Amorosa  It was amazing.  What was more amazing is that they were A-OK with us taking our dogs on the wine tour!!!






 Someone might hit me for posting this picture, but oh well ;-)  They can't hit me from a distance.... ;-)  (Trenton, Denise and Alden (and Fig's butt).

 Our awesome wine tour guide/assistant manager guy, Gary and Trenton
 wine grapes before processing....
 being processed - mmmmm :) 
 Going down into the cellars....



 One of the torture chambers.... :) 

 Lookit who it is!!!  Greta girl!!!  She was having less than a stellar day, but she was SO sweet and SO pretty! :)  It was awesome to meet her!!
 FIGLET! Love this goofy boy!!!
 more torture chamber....
 Trenton and my wine tasting glasses :)
 the castle from the parking lot
 Then we moved on to Peju, down the road...  these were the amazing gardens outside....


 loved the fountains....

 I might get hit again, but oh well - I dare her! ;-) 

 Cool looking cabbage like plant....
 beautiful glass window
 the light fixture (ok, in my defense, by then I'd been wine tasting for a few hours... LOL )
 pretty water sculpture...
 Watson the huge and Figlet.  It was awesome to meet these boys after having only known them online their whole lives...
 Awwwww  :)  Posers. :)

 Trenton was a good sport when we saddled him with all 6...  back to front : Trenton, Chance and Kota, Watson, Piper and Greta and finally Fig in front :) 
 and because I HAD to have a group shot of the whole fam damily....   L to R : Greta, Malibu, Captain, Fig, Watson, Kota, Chance and Piper.  Duncan decided he wanted none of it, thankyouverymuch.

And considering all the dogs, we had NO squabbles!  Amazing testament to their awesome temperaments!