Before we tell you about this weekend, let's rewind back to last weekend. Saturday was much anticipated and turned out to be a blast. I made reservations at the goat cheese farm for a tour a week in advance. Yes, I'll give you a minute to go back and re-read that locale.... Ok, moving forward. After much debate, we decided to take highway 9 to get there; the longest of three routes that was also the "most scenic." While it was a very beautiful scenic drive, it took us 1 1/2 hours to drive 30 miles. Turns out "scenic" just means "winding-pain-in-the-butt-one-lane-road-pretending-to-be-two-lanes". To make it even more adventurous, there was also a bicycle race happening on Highway 9, and they don't move out of the way because they can't hear the Prius. Kind of funny now; not at all funny at the time. Nonetheless, we finally made it after heated brake pads and conversations, and the farm and tour were great! It brought back a lot of childhood memories for Chris who apparently grew up playing with goats?? Weird, I know. We hung out with the goats, saw the cheese-making process and finished by eating our weight in goat cheese. Yum.
Then, we headed to eat lunch at one the oldest bars in California called Duarte's. It's in the small town of Pescadero and has been around since 1898. The food and people watching were amazing! Next on the agenda was a southbound drive on Highway 1 toward Santa Cruz. I read rumors about this wine village there, so we had to see if it was real. Great news - it was! We started at the Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company with a flight of their beers, and then hit up a few wineries nearby. There are a total of 12 (I think), so of course we didn't make them all. It was such a great time though! After meeting a few interesting people (my favorite being the guy from Houston wearing a Camelbak...), we wrapped up conversations and headed back to LG.
All in all, life is good! We're both loving our jobs and the area we live in. They just opened the Safeway (grocery store, for you Texans) that we can walk to, and it has an elevator you take up from the parking garage beneath it. I was embarrassingly excited about that for some very strange reason. Chris has spent his time testing out the cigar shop across the street from us, mountain biking and commuting to San Francisco for work. Not a bad deal, all in all.
Now... here's the pics you've been awaiting. Say (goat) cheese!!!!
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