ADIML: JANUARY 16, 2017 (WINE TASTING, FRIENDS DAY TRIP, OSTRICHLAND)

This is Monday, January 17, 2017!
Day off of work? Escape the city with your friends. Add in some free wine tasting, some steaks, fries, and a visit to Ostrichland.

Prepare yourself for a lot of ostrich shots. Couldn’t contain myself.

Enjoy!

Good morning! A bit of a late start, but hey, the day before Zeen ran a half marathon and we were up like 4am for that.

My. Legs. Are. Sore. From. Walking. Around. All. Day.

I feel like I walked more than 8 miles, but hey. I’m complaining…

Tweedy in motion

Rough

Evidence from the late night dinner we had from Taco Bell the night before

Poured some coffee

And started packing up for wine country

He does this every morning and evening, whenever you say “WAAAALK” in a high pitched voice but it still cracks me up every time.

Sufi and his Mickey. He tries to take Mickey on every walk…

Body cleansin’

Face cleansin’

Any surface? I’ll put my shit on it.

Picking up Kiki soon, I’m running a little late it’s my baaaad.

Pimples and irritated eczema skin hello hello

Put clothes on and scurried out the door

Out the door, and here we goooo

Quick Ralphs stop

Sometimes you need some emergency deodorant

Picking up some cheeses and lil’ picnic supplies

Made it to Kiki’s place

Loading up the car with more food

And some of my favorite people

Cacti mountain

So off we go to Solvang/Buellton–we came up for wine tasting a few months ago, Zach and Kiki jointly acquired a membership to a wine club which means we have to come pick up bottles every few months. That also means free tastings for the day at a few different wineries! Not a horrible errand to take.

The drive is approximately 2 hours away from Los Angeles

All of my annoying blank CDs that drives Zach nuts whenever we take my car anywhere

First stop!

I’m a bad person and can’t remember the name of the winery…

Free tasting!

About half way through our tasting, they announced a winery tour…why the heck not

Started outside at this cork tree. It’s actually squishy like cork!

Walked out to the vineyard portion

*Seriously listening*

T-shaped grape vines

Spool-y processing thinggy

Button pushy thing

Barrel area

Vats and shiz

BARRELSSSSS

Endless rows and rows and rows of wine

After the tour we grabbed our picnic from the car

Firestone! That’s the winery. I cheated, I saw the label in these photos ehehe.

Cheese and salami and crackers

Cheers to lunch!

Looking up the next stop

And away we go

Next stop!

Puddletown

Get low in the grapes

Lincourt, a cute little yellow house overlooking their vineyard.

Could we get some wiiine, plz

Tasting a few more things here

Driving through Solvang to get to a special…place…

Excited for the most beautiful light as we approached…

OSTRICHLAND

DO YOU FEEL THE JOY

Mural-inspo

Pay like $6 or $7 and you get a tray of food to feed the babies

Taxidermy ostrich

You walk out the back and it’s a beautiful landscape and little ostriches dotting the land.

They eating super quickly, so I was cracking up going through these photos because you can see the slow mo chaos of the ostriches throwing food into their mouths

Kiki so thrilled to participate

They eat so aggressively, but so cutely in a way? Just so delighted to hang with them.

“Look at their feet…”

Found this photo of Sufi

We walked out with delightful memories and empty trays

DUN FEED ME

Riding high

Post-ostrich people

Hungry for steak

Last winery stop

Nothing better than being totally leisurely with friends. Just da beeeest.

Pro swirl

Fancy seein’ you here

Sunset, time to get dinner

Hitching Post II!

Pro tip: Make a reservation! It’s a popular place even if it’s on the road side

A serious steak decision had to be made

GARLIC GARLIC GARLIC ROASTED GARLIC

I got to squeeze out the little babies

Lil’ angel baby garlics

Soup starter to share with Zeenie

And we shared this beautiful yummy steak and fries

*HAPPY STEAK FACE*

Raspberry cheese cake

What. A. Feast.

What a fancypants day we had

The stars were POPPIN’

7:30 pm. We’ve had such a classy day, let’s mix it up and pop by the casino

I had my $10 donation ready

We split off, Kiki and Zach did their blackjack thang

I gave my $10 to the slots….hahah

Then Ders and I had some screen time

*Tired casino eyes*

Then we started the long drive home

Made it back to LA after a bunch of random traffic

Drop off

Back to the pups

Hehehe

Home and exhausted (even though I’m not the one who drove)

*Slept in the car face*

Prepped the coffee the next day

The dishes were a bit chaotic, so I just did a quick midnight tidy

Tweedy using the computer

Pajamassss

Getting ready for bed

Opened my Tatcha package! Love getting stuff from them, their wrapping is always so beautiful and calming. I get my moisturizer from Tatcha, but only order during sales or deals (cuz it’s pricey!!!) so this time I got a gift set with any $100+ order (which the cream I use for eczema is) and look at all my new goodies.