This is getting posted a wee bit late. There are but two reasons for this. One, I have been running really short on time. Two, it just occurred to me today that it might be nice to update people on how the most fabulous, epic Wigs and Wine bash turned out.
The day started out with my peeps arriving at my house, getting wigged out, and waiting for our limo escort to arrive. Around 10:45 the limo got here, and I was presented with a very flashy inkjet-grade 8.5 X 11 that read "Happy Birthday Judy!" Clearly, it was time to party.
We loaded up the limo and headed out to King Estate's. I have a very fond affinity for King Estate's from a best friends now-husband, who worked at the Estate one summer. He would get to bring home bottles upon bottles of wine to practice giving his talk about each wine. We would sit there and drink the wine, while he tried to teach us the finer art of actually "tasting" wine. The Estate has expanded so much since he's worked there so many summers ago. He has now gone on to open up a brewery in Portland, so I guess they have both made progress in the pursuit of great beer/wine. We enjoyed a flight of tastes there, and then sat down for lunch at their new-ish restaurant. The food was delicious, but the descriptions of the dishes had all cracked up. For example, you can get a kale salad with massaged kale. Who gets to massage the kale? Is it a sixty minute massage? Ninety? Everyone seemed to enjoy their food, and it was a great way to kick off our tour!
Next we headed down the road to Sweet Cheeks winery. It was here that we discovered the birthday girl had forgotten a very important document to take wine tasting...her I.D. Sweet Cheeks was not about to accept that it was my 30th birthday party, no matter who told them. No I.D. no wine! My guests found it to be very awkward to sit there and drink while I had nothing, so they quickly had their tastes and we moved on. I can respect that they take their wine tasting seriously and they are responsible about it, but c'mon. It's me. Besides, I question the fact that they have a lot of underage drinking issues...at a winery!? Obviously, these people don't know you can just go to Catholic mass and get wine for free! Every week! ;o)
After that, we went to Silvan Ridge. It is literally located across the street from Sweet Cheeks. Trisha, one of my guests, came up with a new plan for getting me some tastes. Here's how it went, Trish would walk into the tasting room, yelling and hollering, "Judy's 30!!! WOOHOO!!!" And, that seemed to work pretty well. No one really asked any questions at this place, and we had more tastes. It may have helped that I ended up knowing one of the women doing the tastes. She wasn't going to question me. The sun was shining, even though it wasn't very warm, but the views at the wineries were so beautiful. I should have taken more pictures, but my focus was a little shaky!
Lastly, we headed to Sarver winery. It. Was. Delicious. I love King Estates, but Sarver had the best wine I have ever tasted. I realize my opinion may not hold much weight seeing as how it was the last of our stops and I'd already had copious amounts of wine in a very short amount of time. But, really, this place was great. I would gladly, and happily, return to Sarver for ANY wine. We also ordered up some bread, with cheesy-butter spread. Ummmm...best idea ever, especially after drinking so much wine.
After the winery tour, we trolled through town sipping our wine in the limo, until we arrived back to my house. From here, we carpooled out to El Torito for dinner. More sangria flowed, and yummy dinners were had. It was our server's first "big party" so it was a bit of a fiasco, but my wonderful significant other continued to give her positive reinforcement whenever she started looking frazzled. He'd call her over, and say, "It's okay. You're doing great! We're all doing fine. You're doing just fine." That really endeared me to him. Awwwwww! It wasn't actually super fine. I mean, we all got our dinners at different times, and drinks were lost, or came out moments before we had to leave, etc. Granted we were crunched on time because we needed to get over to the painting party. Our very final stop.
The painting party proved to be really great. There were about 10 of us that painted pictures. My man took photos for me (still waiting on getting those sent to me...patiently waiting...) and he got some great shots of me and my guests. We enjoyed tasty brownies and cookies from Sweet Life (my favorite patisserie in town, maybe even in the world!) and had so many laughs doing our painting.
By the end of the night, all I could do was take a look around and just be thankful for how many great people I surround myself with. These people put out some serious cash to join me in my special day. Not to mention the fact that they humored me with wearing wigs. Not to mention that they spent ALL day with me. It was truly fabulous. I am one lucky girl. My life is truly full.
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