2 years

Wow – two years have gone by since Ronny and I were married!

To celebrate, we decided to check out a new winery near Seward/Lincoln, called Prime Country Winery. Since it was during the Husker game, there was no one there. Planned that perfect! So we got the place to ourselves to chat with the winemaker and enjoy some good vino.

Instead of buying gifts for each other, we purchased a new camera. I love the DSLR that I use at work, but didn’t want to invest that much into a camera, so we went with this little number:

It has some of the features  of a DSLR, but is compact!

Happy Anniversary, babe and here’s to many more!

A view from the road

We spent a lot of our time during vacation on the road. But it was great because we got to observe a lot of beautiful sights!

 

Ronny got a lot of this view....

And I got a lot of this view...

But then we saw beautiful views like these...

 We saw corn!

 

Lots of winding roads...

 A copper smelter that I almost missed, but it was so historic!

This rock was painted by early settlers like a beagle...

 And when the stoplight needs a little help, 15 minutes later, I can help...

See more CA pictures here.

All the pretty vineyards

After leaving Janet's and retrieving our bags in Sacramento, we traveled through Napa Valley (this route) to tour the Alexander Valley and Dry Creek Valley wine growing regions of Sonoma County. Janet suggested going to the Healdsburg area to tour vineyards and taste wine, so we decided to take the scenic route through Napa just to say we'd been there, then wine tasted in Sonoma County.

We got a great tour from Janet's friend, Matt, who is a winemaker at Mauritson Family Winery in Healdsburg. Here is another winemaker filling the oak barrels after some of the wine has been absorbed. They want to keep the barrels as full as possible with no oxygen. Oxygen is only good for the wine after the bottle is opened and it is ready to be consumed.

We brought home 10 bottles of wine. :)

You can see more vineyard pictures here.