mmm...Wine!

After David opened his presents, we headed out to Paso Robles.  It is a wonderful winery area.  As much as I loved Napa, Paso is lots fun because they have great wineries and are much cheaper. 

Driving through the mountains always bring such neat views.  You drive through lots of agriculture, mountains, and you also pass lots of oil derricks.

We stopped at the first winery, Tobin James.  It's a neat place to stop.  It looks like a saloon, very cute.  And they have free tastings, so there is nothing wrong with that!  After that we headed to Bianchi winery.  They make a very good late harvest dessert wine that we have purchased before.  They have beautiful grounds, and Lily had so much fun watching the coy fish.  The best part of the whole thing was when one of the fish jumped up and scared her!  She jumped and ran over to David as fast as she could.  It was hilarious!

 The last winery we stopped at was Pear Valley.  It is by far my favorite winery.  Little tidbit: most wineries that you go to don't grown their own grapes.  Usually they own the land their building is on, but the grapes are grown in another location and someone else owns the grapes surrounding their winery.  At Pear Valley they acually own all of the land their winery sits on, including all the grapes.  They have a beautiful wine tasting area, and it sits on a hill. beautiful.  They also have amazing wine, which never hurts.

swinging with Grampy

it was a bitwindy

wine grapes are tiny

she loved these steps.

It was such a great vacation with my family.  I was telling my mom when they were here, this trip was special.  Usually we are traveling to go see people, so we don't get much just family time.  This time it was perfect because we really got to experience all of these things together.  It was perfect!