Napa Valley wine tour
Folks, here we are in not so sunny California so we went off Saturday to visit the Napa Valley wineries, something that Rita has always wanted to do. It was a great day and by tie time we got moving, dropped off the van at Lloyds Tire Service in Santa Cruz for new tires it turned sunny and warm, finally ! Up the twisted Hwy 17 toward San Jose then on through San Francisco to Napa. A stop in Napa at the visitors center to get maps and directions to the wineries and we were off. Plan was made to do a few with Mario Andretti’s first on the list Mario was not around but the place was filled with great racing photos and the wine was great. Then off to Mumm and champaign tasting. A couple of bottles of Mumm went home with for Easter diner. Then we stopped at Francis Ford Coupploa’s winery, the oldest in the valley. It was an awesome placeas you will see in the photos. That’s was it, it was time for the two hour trek back to Santa Cruz for diner and pick up the van with new shoes. Easter Sunday we spent the day at home with April & Sal and Sal’s folks. Great barbecue was done by Sal. Still no baby. BTW his name will be Owen, Kai Hernandez ! And, yes he did get a sip of champaign !
Adios,
Frank, Rita & April
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Sal & April in downtown Napa
Rita with great sign in downtown Napa
April & Sal at Mario Andretti's winery
Francis Ford Couppola's winery
Us with Tucker at the Couppola winery
More photos here > http://picasaweb.google.ca/FCondelli/NapaValleyWineTour?authkey=Gv1sRgCOTap8XJ6uGKiAE#