A couple of weekends ago, the King and I headed up to Lodi Lake for the "ZinFest" There were about 50 wineries there that were pouring over 200 wines. Lodi is a little more east of Napa and they primarily produce Zinfandel wine because of the higher than normal temps there, which the Zin grapes like. We drove up on Saturday morning, stopping at a nice Cafe to have breakfast. Needed a little something in the belly before we started partaking in the wines. Once we arrived we started hitting all the wineries with only knowledge of a few of them. There was a lot of really good wines I had never heard of but will now keep them on my list. It was very warm there with the King not happy about the fact she was perspiring. After a few hours of tasting and listening to some really good music from this kid who was playing, we hit the Sales Tent on the way out. I had been marking down the ones I liked and then had to whittle it down to a manageable number. We then went to a winery near by that I already knew about and really like. Picked up another half dozen bottles there as well. I will need to build me a wine cellar downstairs as I am running out of room to keep my wine.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
2009 Dragon Boat Regatta
A few weeks back the kids raced in the High School Dragon Boat Championships and won. Unfortunately that meant that the racing season was not over. By winning that they secured a place in the Dragon Boat Regatta which is all of the adult teams in Northern California. We always kind of enjoy these races a little more because it just really pisses off the other teams when they realize the team that just smoked them is a High School Team. The first race of the day was the College Cup for all of the colleges in California. Teams like UCLA and Cal were in the race which was won by that damn High School team from San Francisco. Next was the Women's heat's and the Women's Final which was won by that damn High School team from SF. Next was the Men's heats and Men's Final which was won by, yep you guessed it, them kids from San Francisco. The final race of the day was all of the top level teams in the "A" Division Final. Sadly, we did not win this won which would have just been icing on the cake or salt in the wound depending on how you were rooting, but it was so close. They lost by .06 seconds. It was a pretty good day and they should be very proud of themselves, we were.
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