So I know I can write this 2 days late without fear of any repercussions since she doesn’t check my blog on a daily basis….Happy 50th Birthday Mom! I love you and I hope your day was everything you wanted it to be.
In other news, Jon and I went wine tasting last weekend for the big Memorial day winery thing. For those of you out of state, all the wineries/vineyards that aren’t usually open to the public are open on Memorial Day weekend (and Thanksgiving) for people to come and taste. We went to 9 total, three on Saturday and 6 on Monday. On Sat., we went to Abiqua Winds, Champoeg, and Paradis, all of which were very nice, and more importantly, free. I had a really nice Reisling at Champoeg. On Monday we went with a couple of my friends, took a picnic, and ended up doing six wineries instead of the four that we’d originally planned. We went to Ponzi (didn’t like anything and the service SUCKED), Argyle (really good late harvest reisling), Sokol Blosser (mostly pinot noir, which I’m not a fan of, but I really liked Evolution), Hauer of the Dauen (cheapest at $2 for tasting 16 wines, also had the best variety including three late harvest wines), Silver Falls, and Willamette Valley Vineyards, which had the most beautiful scenery, as well as the nicest glasses that we got to keep (Reidel Crystal Cabernet Glasses). I think I’ll be good with a wine-free exsistence for a little while now, although I did really enjoy it.
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