Wednesday, January 02, 2008
visiting temecula
on boxing day, marlene and shyla picked me up on the way to temecula and we had a lot of fun running around the south coast winery
here’s a close up of the fountain
we were so excited when we saw the little villa that we were staying in!
but of course we didn’t wanna spend all our time in the room, so we took a walk through the spa and then towards the restaurant, which was surrounded by this shrubbery
and then i had to test the macro function on my camera on a close up of the berries…
after some adventures involving taxis and other wineries, we came back to south coast and found out we couldn’t eat at the restaurant without a reservation. not a problem - we spent that extra time taking our hay ride tour of the Christmas lights! we were the best customers of the night, providing our own Christmas carols as we sang a not-so-silent, not-so-peaceful ‘silent night’
we had a bit of issues with the heater in our villa and then our keys not working in our room anymore, so chad (the manager) had to take us back to the villa with the right key. we got to ride the cart instead of walking back and forth in the cold!
the next morning we took a tour of the wineries and a sit-down tasting. it was pretty cool to sit down with the row of wine glasses on display…
our sommelier tara was very helpful and informative and made everything very interesting to us! i definitely learned alot and have learned to appreciate wine so much more!
thank you to shyla for inviting marlene and myself to enjoy the south coast winery with her!