Gundlach Bundschu Winery - Sonoma {California 2012 Recap}

After leaving Matanzas Creek Winery, we had a little lunch picnic in a Sonoma park, then continued on to our last winery of the trip:  Gundlach Bundschu.  We had reservations for the afternoon winery tour & were glad we planned ahead because it was a full group!  The tour was great - Our guide took us into the vineyard and around the grounds, explaining the wine making process and different types of wines they make.  We concluded our tour with being lead into their wine cave for a variety of tastings.  This was most definitely one of the top wineries we visited.  So glad it made the cut! 

Guided winery tour (with a super funny tour guide!)...

Into the wine cave for some tastings...

And nothing tops off a day full of wine touring like some sunset swimming...

(Brett swam, I laughed - it was freezing!)

That wraps up my recaps from "Part 1" of our California trip!

Time to head down to Kings Canyon for "Part 2"!

Vacation Instas

I don't think I could be anymore excited to finally say...

Happy Friday!*

 (does anyone else feel like this week has just taken for-ev-er?!)

I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things over here.

I have hundreds and hundreds of photos to sort through from our trip to California last week.

So until I get around posting those, some vacation instagrams will have to do. :)

I reeeeally could seriously move to California...
It's just so beautiful.

Do you have instagram?

Let's be friends!  (username: annat314)

Have a great weekend!!*

(We're heading over to Hershey, PA this weekend for FarmAid 2012!  Can't wait!)

honeymoon!!

soo... it's the end of october.
and we went on our honeymoon in august.
and i am just now getting around to blogging about it...
better late than never, right?!

we went to california
and it was the best, most magical and fun trip ever*
i present to you,
our honeymoon via photos:

we were in california for 11 days, 10 nights.
we flew in and out of san francisco,
rented a car,
and went on a little roadtrip!
here is our adventures in a nutshell

1st stop:
sausalito
we stayed on a houseboat
and it was seriously awesome!
it was on the san francisco bay
and literally rocked back and forth.

2nd stop:
sonoma valley
we went wine tasting (and beer tasting).
we went to 2 wineries:
ravenswood winery
&
sterling winery
(amazing air ride up to the winery on the mountain!)
then, bounced to 2 breweries:
lagunitas brewery
&
russian river brewery
(super awesome band was playing)

3rd stop:
yosemite national park
we spent 2 days hiking,
seeing gigantic redwoods,
amazing waterfalls,
and incredible views.
pictures don't do this place justice!

4th stop:
pismo beach
got upgraded to the ocean front suite = amazing
learned how to surf!
saw a whale in the wild!
ate amazing italian

5th stop:
santa cruz
home of the craziest people i've ever seen.
stayed in a cute little cottage!
went ziplinging on top of the redwoods!
ate tasty mexican food,
and went to see SambaDa!
(really fun latin band)

6th stop:
san francisco
did lots of touristy things, so fun!
went to the top of the coit tower,
saw the golden gate bridge,
saw the painted ladies,
walked down lombard street,
went to some breweries,
met up with frank & amanda!

then after a fun-filled 11 days of pure romantic honeymoon bliss...
it was time to come home.

california is a beautiful, amazing place!
i know we will travel back there some day!

and that, my friends, is our honeymoon in a nutshell!
:)

(we already have the travel bug again...
...slowly planning our next trip!)