Girls Night Out

For those who don't know, I work at Milliaire Winery between 3 and 5 days a week. The other two girls that work in the Tasting Room and I decided to go for a girls night out the other day. We had a lot of customers come in and say how good the Full Monty was that was playing at the playhouse in Sonora, so we decided to make an evening of it, first a little dinner and then the play to follow.

Jana, myself and Terri.

We were very excited to see they had Friday Night Wine Down going on before the play, so we got to enjoy some tasty Newsome Harlow wines and the have a glass while waiting for the play to begin.

The play was awesome! We laughed pretty much the whole way through. It was thoroughly appropriate for a girls night out too.

Birthday Extravaganza

My birthday, was well over a month ago. In the midst of having three part time jobs I have not put up the pictures from that day yet. Wait, who am I kidding, in the midst of being unemployed it is not like I got pictures up any sooner. In my defense, I do not have internet at home. If I did, I am quite confident that I would get posts up in a more timely fashion.

So, my birthday was on a Saturday, so I wanted to go wine tasting with all of my friends. Even with a month's notice, most of them could not show up at the end of the day, so here is who we had.

My brother-in-law is on the end, who does not normally have a black beard, and is in fact blond, but was going to a giants game later in the weekend, and died it for the occasion. Dirk, my friend from Sacramento is next to him, then me, and then the husband. This is our first or second stop of the day.

This is my sister, aka the driver's, self portrait. Sad face here for not being able to taste with us. In our defense, she was driving because she was pregnant.

And the husband and I somewhere along the road.
Shortly after this, and me being disappointed that most of my friends bailed out, we decided that next year we are not going to have any b-day parties.

The Baran's

Something you need to know about the Baran's, is that they pretty much don't pass up an opportunity to drink, my in-laws, my husband, and his brother are all like this.

So, here we are on Sunday after I have had about 2 hours of sleep, and just before we go to see Baby LeiLani, doing some wine tasting, in true Baran form.

My Lady

My lady was in town a few weeks ago. So we did something new and different for us,

we went wine tasting.

Let me clarify, we both love wine and wine tasting, but for some reason

we have never done it together.

It was simply marvelous.

The husband even offered to come pick us up after it all, but that is another story...

Brook, attempting to find her prince charming.

Unfortunately, this frog was not it.



A little later that night with Zac-Bob in the background,
and moving on to margaritas and vodka tonics.

We also went back to the "good old days" and slept in the same bed that night.

The Husband was only mildly offended.

Brook, next time you must stay up for the whole three day weekend, in my opinion.

Fight the Funk

The husband and I (as well as a few other people) were camping in Pismo this last weekend. We LOVE wine and did a little wine tasting one day...

On the last day, before we left we started to get into a little bit of a funk, if you know what I mean... In pursuit of doing something to "Fight the Funk" we decided to do a little more wine tasting before we went home. Really, what helps you fight a funk more than alcohol?

So, that lead us to these vineyards...

Hug Cellars and Barrel 27. They were both fabulous. Seriously, very good wine. So, if you are ever in Paso Robles you should go try them out. It did help us fight the funk too. It is also quite convenient that are two favorite were right next door to each other.