But not long enough. It seems work or something drags us back. On Friday Robb and I headed up to Buellton, Solvang, and Santa Ynes to do some wine tasting and of course cache. I figured it was all good since it was my hubby's birthday weekend. So we started our day off pack
ing and then headed to
Marmalade Cafe for some breakfast. We figured we would eat there as we had a coupon to buy one breakfast and get one free. Robb enjoyed his bagel topped with cream cheese (I think) , salmon, tomatoes, huge rings of red onions and capers. I on the other hand had the classic french toast. I must say this was the beginning of a bad weekend of eating. I always seem to have a justification...oh it's my hubby's birthday, etc. So as of this writing I am back on track. After our nice breakfast we headed up towards Santa Barbara for our first couple of caches and we had success with getting a few. Headed further up the coast and visited
Nojoqui Falls Park It was a beautiful place and a nice walk up to the falls. With our light rainfall this year I was not expecting much but there was a small trickle of water coming down. The picture shown is not one we took...so it was a very small trickle. We headed for some more caches and made our way to Los Alamos...a one street, one off ramp kind of town. We managed to get a few caches here and then found a local dive called Charlie's...not really a dive and we figured if the locals
were there the food must be pretty good. We enjoyed our lunch in the patio at Charlies and listened to the locals talking horses and work and what not. It was a pleasant place with a fountain and an outdoor bar. After that we headed towards another cache and our first wine tasting stop at
Rancho Sisquoc . A good bargain at $7.00 dollars (including glass) for 11 tastings. I must say I can smell the difference among wines but I am not very good at distinguishing the different smells within one wine. I can't tell if it smells like peaches or grapefruit. I did enjoy some of their wines and if you want one man's opinions visit
my hubby's site for his analysis. He should have his reports from our wine tasting adventures up soon. We then drove some more and came across another winery my hubby wanted to visit ...
Curtis Winery. I thought the grounds were beautifu
l unfortunately at the time because of a lack of a special liquor license you can't drink wine except in the tasting room. ...not so nice if you want to have a lunch and drink some wine but anyway. The tasting here was $10 dollars for about 5 or 6 wines and it includes the
glass and a free tasting at Firestone which is down the road. So not a bad deal. The wines at Curtis were not as good in my opinion as Rancho but my hubby like the red wines they offered. We even ran into some fellow cachers here so quite an adventure. We then headed over to
Firestone thinking why not? We barely made it for the last tasting at 4:45. Again not thrilled myself with these wines but then again I am not really a wine drinker. I also wanted to be careful not to mix so many wines as I have gotten sick before. We both loved the chardonnay and jalapeno mustard they offered with pretzel sticks...enough even to buy some. We also noticed they sell their own JARHEAD RED wine to support fallen Marines children. So we thought it being Memorial Day weekend, we would do a little to help our fallen heroes. As it was getting late we thought it best to check into ou
r hotel at the famous Split Pea Anderson's so we could get to our dinner at the Brothers Restaurant at Mattei's Tavern. A delicious dinner. Again look to my hubby's log for details as I fear my entry is long enough. So I think I will end it here for now. A most productive Friday and it was so wonderful to get away with the man I love.
ing and then headed to Marmalade Cafe for some breakfast. We figured we would eat there as we had a coupon to buy one breakfast and get one free. Robb enjoyed his bagel topped with cream cheese (I think) , salmon, tomatoes, huge rings of red onions and capers. I on the other hand had the classic french toast. I must say this was the beginning of a bad weekend of eating. I always seem to have a justification...oh it's my hubby's birthday, etc. So as of this writing I am back on track. After our nice breakfast we headed up towards Santa Barbara for our first couple of caches and we had success with getting a few. Headed further up the coast and visited Nojoqui Falls Park It was a beautiful place and a nice walk up to the falls. With our light rainfall this year I was not expecting much but there was a small trickle of water coming down. The picture shown is not one we took...so it was a very small trickle. We headed for some more caches and made our way to Los Alamos...a one street, one off ramp kind of town. We managed to get a few caches here and then found a local dive called Charlie's...not really a dive and we figured if the locals 
l unfortunately at the time because of a lack of a special liquor license you can't drink wine except in the tasting room. ...not so nice if you want to have a lunch and drink some wine but anyway. The tasting here was $10 dollars for about 5 or 6 wines and it includes the 
glass and a free tasting at Firestone which is down the road. So not a bad deal. The wines at Curtis were not as good in my opinion as Rancho but my hubby like the red wines they offered. We even ran into some fellow cachers here so quite an adventure. We then headed over to Firestone thinking why not? We barely made it for the last tasting at 4:45. Again not thrilled myself with these wines but then again I am not really a wine drinker. I also wanted to be careful not to mix so many wines as I have gotten sick before. We both loved the chardonnay and jalapeno mustard they offered with pretzel sticks...enough even to buy some. We also noticed they sell their own JARHEAD RED wine to support fallen Marines children. So we thought it being Memorial Day weekend, we would do a little to help our fallen heroes. As it was getting late we thought it best to check into ou
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