Wine County, Wooohooo!

So we drove up the coastal highway that took us like an hour and a half to go 20 miles. AJ and I were so sick by the time we were got to our bed and breakfast on point Reyes state park which is on the west coast in Marin county just about San Francisco. It was beautiful! We stayed on a farm and it was on the hillside and we had a big room with a beautiful view which had a fire place and a king size bed and a very large bathroom! It had a beautiful country style living room in the main area of the big house and we were on the second floor. There was a kitchen where the inn keeper made breakfast and a large dining table where we ate it as well! The gardens in the back were beautiful and you could see the pond and the cows from the back yard gardens too! There was a hot tub enclosed on 3 sides and the 4th side was open to small breezes and kept the cold winds out even in the winter. The hot tub was perfect and AJ and I took a bottle of wine we had bought in San Diego and jumped right in! Apparently, some of the other guests didn't know there was a hot tub and that is one of the main things I picked about this bed and breakfast!
After an amazing dinner at one of the local restaurants which actually served pop-overs as their bread (everyone in the Wise family knows what they are)! I ate AJ's too they were so good and he was mad they were empty inside! HA! We went back and fell asleep in our big bed to the warmth of the crackling fire and to the sound of frogs at the pond and cows mooing in the field! It was SO peaceful! AJ loved it!

The next morning we got dressed and breakfast was served promptly at 8:30am in the dining room. AJ was kind of nervous of eating breakfast with two other couples but it was really nice having company and talking about everyone’s travels and how they ended up there! The food the inn keeper made was really extravagant and we had fresh fruit, apple strudel, home-made, an omelet and Danishes. Of course milk and OJ too!

After saying good-bye and packing up, we got back on the road again and headed to Sonoma County where we went to this perfect Italian style Vineyard. It was so beautiful outside! We had the perfect day! Almost no breeze and in the 70's! We got a private tour and we sampled all their dips and marinades with bread that they had out to try in their market place. We also got to learn about how to grow, make and taste wine! We loved it but it was a private vineyard and their wine wasn't publicly distributed and you can't ship wine to MD so we bought a bottle to go with our lunch we had and then went on our way. We got to eat lunch from the top of the hill over looking their 90 acres of wet lands and even more of vineyards in little bistro furniture! It was so much fun!

Sorry about the picture quality but it was the only one we got of us together in Sonoma. After all that, we got back in the car and drove about 2.5 hours east to Lake Tahoe… where there was 10 feet of snow!