Monday Morning. Time for our Star Princess two day cruise.
Our hotel room rate included breakfast, so we ate there. We'd left our bags in the room, ready to go, so after breakfast we took one last walk around Canada Place. There is major construction there, and the side of Canada Place where the Star is docked was blocked, so no good side views. We did take a look at the back of the ship, and looked at the balcony of the room we'll have on our next cruise.
After that, we decided to brave the security lines for the ship. Both the Star and the Coral Princess were in port, so where to drop luggage was a bit confusing. We walked right by it. Fortunately, an employee directed us back, so our luggage didn't end up in Los Angeles on the Coral. It apparently was a problem to others as well, because as we dropped the bags, the porters were moving signs around to make it more obvious.
It was, contrary to the last time we sailed from Vancouver, a quick trip through security. The next step was to go through US Customs. There was a line, but it only took about 10 minutes to get through. A quick hello to the Customs Agent and onward to Cruise check in. Alas, no priority line (in Seattle that saved us a bunch of time). However, this line was short, and within 15 minutes we were on the ship.
We'd originally booked a balcony room, but a week before we'd been upgraded to a mini-suite. After the inside cabin, we really appreciated the extra space. I don't love the balconies on this ship as they are completely uncovered. The bathroom has a tub/shower, and that's a huge improvement over the normal tiny shower.
Our room steward arrived promptly, and offered us a glass of champagne - about the only "perk" of having a mini suite besides the space.
We did sailaway and waved to the people on the Lion's Gate Bridge. Before dinner, we headed to the Wheelhouse to dance. When we were on the Star in May, we were unimpressed with the Wheelhouse as a dance venue for two reasons. The floor is small (not a huge problem, since it's really only slightly smaller than most) and the big problem - the layout meant that the smoking section was right up against the floor. We didn't have much of a problem with it, but friends on the cruise afterward said it was awful. We're on this ship for 16 days next year, so smoking could be a huge problem.
However, since May, Princess has changed their smoking policy and now the bars are, with the exception of the cigar bar and part of the disco, completely non smoking. Yay. The band was good, unfortunately they are leaving after next week.
I also ran into the street entertainers, a ballroom couple. They remembered us from the May cruise.
We found ourselves at large table for 10, oval shaped. We met some nice people, and as is typical on the coastals some didn't come back for the second night. The only interesting thing about dinner was that the second night was a different menu than the northbound similar coastal.
We spent the sea day as we always do - dance lessons and relaxing in the Patasserie.
When we got the disembarkation information, we discovered we were among the last to disembark. It didn't bother me, because I was planning to take the day off, but Glen told me he was going back to work. It took until almost noon to get off the ship, but fortunately, unlike the northbound, they did set up a lounge area for the higher loyalty status passengers, so we had coffee, juice and pastries while chatting with fellow passengers. A roughly 1 mile walk to BART to get back to the airport to pick up our car followed.
At the BART station a local probably homeless guy was helping people buy their tickets, so we and others gave him a dollar. That' to my mind a creative and useful way to panhandle. Also, a couple were with us heading the airport to drop off their bags before catching a red eye home. Appartently they were then taking BART back up to the city to sightsee. It is about a 45 minute ride (btw, BART completed our planes, trains, automobiles and ship trip) each way, so that's a lot of overhead to drop the bag.
After arriving at the airport, we picked up the car, and resumed real life for a while, while still eagerly anticipating our next trip on the Star - our big one!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The day in Vancouver
We arrived at the Pan Pacific around 9am. Naturally, our room wasn't quite ready. We hung around the lobby until our friends arrived. Della and Joe decided to try for a noon flight, and so bailed on us for lunch. Sam and Kathleen, however, knew they weren't going to get on the noon flight to Seattle, so decided to stay for lunch.
Before that, however, I took them all to the hotel business center to get their boarding passes. We then walked Joe and Della to the air train station to the airport, a new public transportation system that apparently has been opened since the last time we visited the Vancouver airport in 2006. After a quick cheerful good bye, we head to Joe Fortes for lunch. It was a nice, although slightly expensive, lunch. We enjoyed getting to know Sam and Kathleen, and are hoping to see them when both our schedules settle down. They'd left bags at our hotel, so we headed back there with a stop at Rocky Mountain Chocolate for me to get a Caramel Apple.
We then wandered around Canada Place, and looked at the ships. There were three there that day - the Golden Princess (which we'd just vacated) and two Holland America ships. I left Glen to take a nap while I headed to a nearby coffee place for a quick internet check.
When I returned, we wandered around some more. There are two convention centers at Canada Place, so we walked around the promenade of the other building. There were display boards about the history of the area, and curiously, they chronicled some of the worst black spots on Canadian history.
Following that, we met our friend Tammy, who works for one of my client companies. We had a delightful hour at the hotel bar, and then she had to leave.
That, however, gave us time to watch the sailaways of the ships.
We watched muster drills. Here's one of the many things I love about Princess.
Here's the muster drill on one of the Holland America ships:
And here is the same view of the Island Princess during their muster drill:
Notice the difference? Princess musters their passengers in the theater and lounges - much nicer.
After sail away, we headed back to the room and relaxed until our dinner at Joe Fortes. Yes, the same restaurant we had brunch at. Someday, we'll have to go to a different restaurant in Vancouver.
We wandered back to the hotel after dinner, watched The Empire Strikes Back on TV, and went to bed, anticipating our next cruise tomorrow.
Before that, however, I took them all to the hotel business center to get their boarding passes. We then walked Joe and Della to the air train station to the airport, a new public transportation system that apparently has been opened since the last time we visited the Vancouver airport in 2006. After a quick cheerful good bye, we head to Joe Fortes for lunch. It was a nice, although slightly expensive, lunch. We enjoyed getting to know Sam and Kathleen, and are hoping to see them when both our schedules settle down. They'd left bags at our hotel, so we headed back there with a stop at Rocky Mountain Chocolate for me to get a Caramel Apple.
We then wandered around Canada Place, and looked at the ships. There were three there that day - the Golden Princess (which we'd just vacated) and two Holland America ships. I left Glen to take a nap while I headed to a nearby coffee place for a quick internet check.
When I returned, we wandered around some more. There are two convention centers at Canada Place, so we walked around the promenade of the other building. There were display boards about the history of the area, and curiously, they chronicled some of the worst black spots on Canadian history.
Following that, we met our friend Tammy, who works for one of my client companies. We had a delightful hour at the hotel bar, and then she had to leave.
That, however, gave us time to watch the sailaways of the ships.
We watched muster drills. Here's one of the many things I love about Princess.
Here's the muster drill on one of the Holland America ships:
And here is the same view of the Island Princess during their muster drill:
Notice the difference? Princess musters their passengers in the theater and lounges - much nicer.
After sail away, we headed back to the room and relaxed until our dinner at Joe Fortes. Yes, the same restaurant we had brunch at. Someday, we'll have to go to a different restaurant in Vancouver.
We wandered back to the hotel after dinner, watched The Empire Strikes Back on TV, and went to bed, anticipating our next cruise tomorrow.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Our "Why are we doing this" cruise weekend
Friday night 9/18 - we're off. This weekend features a one night cruise, followed by a two night cruise. Given the chaos of leaving a ship, we wonder why we do it. But where else can you get lunch, dinner, a room and your choice of one or more evening activities (dancing, shows or movies) for under 300.00 for 2? And, it was cheaper to fly to Seattle than Vancouver.
So here we are in our hotel room in Seattle. Our good friend picked us up, and we had dinner near Seattle airport - it was a barbecue specialty place, but we ordered fried brie with raspberry sauce and cranberry chutney. Yummy. Then it was a quick ride to our hotel. In the morning, the hotel will take us back to the airport where we'll meet other friends going on the cruise with us.
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Hello from the Golden Princess. It's been quite a day. We woke up around 9, and went back to the airport at 11 to meet our friends. While waiting, we met Sam and Kathleen, other friends of our Seattle friends Joe and Della. Della arrived at about 11:45 sans Joe. Apparently he had to go run some errands, so we were going to meet him at their sons house. Driving out of the airport, Joe called, and said that he was running late, so we went off to Trader Joes to buy wine. Called again, running later. So we shopped around for a while. Then, he needed a sandwich, so over to Albertsons. Call from Joe - on the way to his sons. We're heading over. Della decided to show us this really cute street along Puget Sound. As we're driving down the street, I asked Glen if he'd been on the street before. He said yes. Della asked him if he knew how to get out of the neighborhood. Glen's advice - head uphill. We did and eventually made it to the son's house where Joe was waiting. It went smoothly from there - drop Joe at home in Queen Anne hill to pack, and a drive to the new cruise terminal. You leave the main road and it's sort of winding under and around, but there are drop off lanes.
The terminal looked like every other terminal. In this one, there was a line to check in, but we were able to go to the preferred line and get checked in quickly. Sam and Kathleen were ahead of us going in, because we checked luggage, but we got ahead of them because of the preferred line.
We headed to our inside cabin:
It's pretty, shall we say cozy? We were hoping for an upgrade, but no such luck.
Sail away was fun - I did a bit of line dancing, and enjoyed the views of the Olympic peninsula.
We met our friends for our first, and probably last, Anytime Dining dinner. Anytime is a Princess concept where people can opt for a restaurant like experience, rather than traditional dining. In this case, there was a buyout of the traditional dining room, so it was pretty chaotic. We were told there was a 45 minute wait - and then everyone would be seated, turning it into a more traditional like dinner. Our friend Della was eager to get to the Ballroom Blitz activity, so she wasn't happy. About 10 minutes after we got there, the Maitre'D of the traditional dining room arrived to take a batch of us to that room. Apparently he did that throughout the evening.
After dinner, we did some dancing, sampled a hot tub and headed to bed in our very dark room. We were being kicked out of the room early, but nothing we could do about that.
On Sunday morning, we got up and out of the room and headed to the dining room reserved for the higher echelons of the loyalty program. After a breakfast of coffee, juice and pastry, we decided to leave the ship and go to our hotel. There was about a 5 minute line to leave the ship, but customs was a breeze, just walk through the terminal, hand the customers declaration to a guy checking the passports and voila, we're in Canada.
So here we are in our hotel room in Seattle. Our good friend picked us up, and we had dinner near Seattle airport - it was a barbecue specialty place, but we ordered fried brie with raspberry sauce and cranberry chutney. Yummy. Then it was a quick ride to our hotel. In the morning, the hotel will take us back to the airport where we'll meet other friends going on the cruise with us.
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Hello from the Golden Princess. It's been quite a day. We woke up around 9, and went back to the airport at 11 to meet our friends. While waiting, we met Sam and Kathleen, other friends of our Seattle friends Joe and Della. Della arrived at about 11:45 sans Joe. Apparently he had to go run some errands, so we were going to meet him at their sons house. Driving out of the airport, Joe called, and said that he was running late, so we went off to Trader Joes to buy wine. Called again, running later. So we shopped around for a while. Then, he needed a sandwich, so over to Albertsons. Call from Joe - on the way to his sons. We're heading over. Della decided to show us this really cute street along Puget Sound. As we're driving down the street, I asked Glen if he'd been on the street before. He said yes. Della asked him if he knew how to get out of the neighborhood. Glen's advice - head uphill. We did and eventually made it to the son's house where Joe was waiting. It went smoothly from there - drop Joe at home in Queen Anne hill to pack, and a drive to the new cruise terminal. You leave the main road and it's sort of winding under and around, but there are drop off lanes.
The terminal looked like every other terminal. In this one, there was a line to check in, but we were able to go to the preferred line and get checked in quickly. Sam and Kathleen were ahead of us going in, because we checked luggage, but we got ahead of them because of the preferred line.
We headed to our inside cabin:
It's pretty, shall we say cozy? We were hoping for an upgrade, but no such luck.
Sail away was fun - I did a bit of line dancing, and enjoyed the views of the Olympic peninsula.
We met our friends for our first, and probably last, Anytime Dining dinner. Anytime is a Princess concept where people can opt for a restaurant like experience, rather than traditional dining. In this case, there was a buyout of the traditional dining room, so it was pretty chaotic. We were told there was a 45 minute wait - and then everyone would be seated, turning it into a more traditional like dinner. Our friend Della was eager to get to the Ballroom Blitz activity, so she wasn't happy. About 10 minutes after we got there, the Maitre'D of the traditional dining room arrived to take a batch of us to that room. Apparently he did that throughout the evening.
After dinner, we did some dancing, sampled a hot tub and headed to bed in our very dark room. We were being kicked out of the room early, but nothing we could do about that.
On Sunday morning, we got up and out of the room and headed to the dining room reserved for the higher echelons of the loyalty program. After a breakfast of coffee, juice and pastry, we decided to leave the ship and go to our hotel. There was about a 5 minute line to leave the ship, but customs was a breeze, just walk through the terminal, hand the customers declaration to a guy checking the passports and voila, we're in Canada.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Arizona trip 2 of 4
I'm sitting at the airport, waiting to leave for my second of 4 trips to Phoenix before Thanksgiving. Usually Beth goes with me, but this is a quick trip - back fast enough that I've already checked in for my return flight. It also kicks of my mega-travel fall - out of town for all or part of six straight weekends. Two Phoenix, one coastal cruise, a trip to NY spanning two, and the San Francisco 3-day. I'm looking forward to Halloween at home.
Arizona this time is for a crew meeting. We felt it was important that one of us go (as crew captains) and today is Becky's birthday, so I go. I think this is the first time I've flown on September 11.
So far, flight is on time. More later from the end of the trip.
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The meeting on the 12 went well. The flight home - not so much. I get to the airport about an hour and a half before my flight. It's going to be two hours late - so much for my dance lesson. But wait, there's a flight leaving in 20 minutes. Maybe I can get on that. Run throough security. No gate information. Turns out it's on US Air in another terminal. So much for that. In the meantime my flight is canceled. What then happened was about 35 minutes of trying to get home. At one point, it was through Denver. Only about 1500 miles out of the way. While the agent was calling US air, I was on the phone with United and they were telling me I could get on a 4pm on US air direct to San Francisco. The agent was saying that she called, and there were no more seats.
Finally, she told me to run to gate 3 and they'd put me on a flight to LA. From there, getting home is easy. That flight was about 15 minutes late, but that was OK - I had a 3 hour layover. Got to the airport, and found I'd just missed a flight. However, my flight was at 8:15 and there was a 6:20. I was able to go standby on that, and was home at about 8. Did I mention that my day started at 6 am? It was exhausting but other than getting home a good weekend.
Arizona this time is for a crew meeting. We felt it was important that one of us go (as crew captains) and today is Becky's birthday, so I go. I think this is the first time I've flown on September 11.
So far, flight is on time. More later from the end of the trip.
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The meeting on the 12 went well. The flight home - not so much. I get to the airport about an hour and a half before my flight. It's going to be two hours late - so much for my dance lesson. But wait, there's a flight leaving in 20 minutes. Maybe I can get on that. Run throough security. No gate information. Turns out it's on US Air in another terminal. So much for that. In the meantime my flight is canceled. What then happened was about 35 minutes of trying to get home. At one point, it was through Denver. Only about 1500 miles out of the way. While the agent was calling US air, I was on the phone with United and they were telling me I could get on a 4pm on US air direct to San Francisco. The agent was saying that she called, and there were no more seats.
Finally, she told me to run to gate 3 and they'd put me on a flight to LA. From there, getting home is easy. That flight was about 15 minutes late, but that was OK - I had a 3 hour layover. Got to the airport, and found I'd just missed a flight. However, my flight was at 8:15 and there was a 6:20. I was able to go standby on that, and was home at about 8. Did I mention that my day started at 6 am? It was exhausting but other than getting home a good weekend.
Friday, July 31, 2009
3 States in 9 days
My most recent travels involved visiting 3 states in 9 days. Originally, I was going to go visit my sister, and work remotely from NYC. She then offered me the chance to go to Vermont to visit my oldest niece on camp visiting weekend, so I did.
I started by flying to Boston on a Wednesday night red eye. It's been a long time since my last red eye and probably a long time til my next one (well, domestic, our trip to BA has to be a red eye). I thought maybe I'd try to upgrade - I was in the middle of a waitlist of 37 people for 24 seats. Oh well. Maybe I slept just a bit.
Flight was early so I was able to grab some Dunkin Donuts coffee while waiting for my cousin to pick me up to drive the 90 minutes to Sturbridge. Supposedly the some of the best coffee ever. It was good, although I did have my McDonald lawsuit moment as I spilled it on my lap. Hot, but not hot enough to do any damage, so Dunkin won't be funding my retirement.
Then spent 2 days at the Host hotel in Sturbridge with my cousin, sister and two youngest nieces. On Friday, I went into Sturbridge Village to watch the kids do English Country dance - now we have promised to take Ellie dancing next time she's here.
From there, it was onto Vermont to visit Lily (oldest niece) at camp visitor weekend. She's been at that camp for a long time, and Ellie is following her next summer, so it was nice to see it in person. The camp is in the town of Fairlee Vermont, which is pretty much in the middle of nowhere on a lake. It was lovely to see Lily.
We stayed at a B&B called the Silver Maple Lodge, considered the best in Fairlee. It's pretty, but a little too close to the interstate to be considered as rustic as the website implies. The rooms are pretty, but the amenities are limited - no TV in the main house, no blowdryers and the continental breakfast is pretty much what you'd have at home - two kinds of pastry, instant oatmeal and orange juice. Pleasant, but nothing to write home about.
During the camp weekend we got to see the camp, watch the camp play (abridged version of Sussical the Musical) and enjoy a farewell sing along. Lily's big achievement was earning her lifeguard certification. Impressive.
Driving back to NY on Sunday, we took the scenic route and went to Mass Moca (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - not a coffee place) in North Adams. That was was way cool, and featured 3 stories of exhibits of walls by artist Sol LeWitt. Very much worth seeing.
I spent the following week working out of my mom's New York apartment. My sister had all 3 kids elsewhere so we had a great time. We had dinner with a coworker at Parlor Steakhouse on Monday, saw the Harry Potter movie on Tuesday and dinner in Weehawken NJ with one of our 3-day team members on Wednesday. On Thursday, we saw one of the 3 plays that make up the Norman Conquests - a series of farcical plays about a family weekend somewhere in England. We enjoyed it so much that we opted to see a second one of the plays instead of picking up my mom and Becky at the airport on Friday night. If you ever get the chance to see these, I highly recommend them. I'm hoping to see the third sometime (timewise, they all overlap each other).
On Saturday I went home, leaving from Newark airport. My mom decided that they should see where she grew up, so I got a ride to the airport. In the process of picking a route, Beth managed to find the shortest, rather than the fastest, so we got the scenic tour of Hoboken. The highlight of the trip was when my mom was telling her where to go and she finally got to tell someone to stop being a backseat driver who was actually in the back seat.
Flight was a bit late, which was bad for people making connections, but good for me, since my ride couldn't get to the airport before about an hour after the flight was originally supposed to come in.
I started by flying to Boston on a Wednesday night red eye. It's been a long time since my last red eye and probably a long time til my next one (well, domestic, our trip to BA has to be a red eye). I thought maybe I'd try to upgrade - I was in the middle of a waitlist of 37 people for 24 seats. Oh well. Maybe I slept just a bit.
Flight was early so I was able to grab some Dunkin Donuts coffee while waiting for my cousin to pick me up to drive the 90 minutes to Sturbridge. Supposedly the some of the best coffee ever. It was good, although I did have my McDonald lawsuit moment as I spilled it on my lap. Hot, but not hot enough to do any damage, so Dunkin won't be funding my retirement.
Then spent 2 days at the Host hotel in Sturbridge with my cousin, sister and two youngest nieces. On Friday, I went into Sturbridge Village to watch the kids do English Country dance - now we have promised to take Ellie dancing next time she's here.
From there, it was onto Vermont to visit Lily (oldest niece) at camp visitor weekend. She's been at that camp for a long time, and Ellie is following her next summer, so it was nice to see it in person. The camp is in the town of Fairlee Vermont, which is pretty much in the middle of nowhere on a lake. It was lovely to see Lily.
We stayed at a B&B called the Silver Maple Lodge, considered the best in Fairlee. It's pretty, but a little too close to the interstate to be considered as rustic as the website implies. The rooms are pretty, but the amenities are limited - no TV in the main house, no blowdryers and the continental breakfast is pretty much what you'd have at home - two kinds of pastry, instant oatmeal and orange juice. Pleasant, but nothing to write home about.
During the camp weekend we got to see the camp, watch the camp play (abridged version of Sussical the Musical) and enjoy a farewell sing along. Lily's big achievement was earning her lifeguard certification. Impressive.
Driving back to NY on Sunday, we took the scenic route and went to Mass Moca (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - not a coffee place) in North Adams. That was was way cool, and featured 3 stories of exhibits of walls by artist Sol LeWitt. Very much worth seeing.
I spent the following week working out of my mom's New York apartment. My sister had all 3 kids elsewhere so we had a great time. We had dinner with a coworker at Parlor Steakhouse on Monday, saw the Harry Potter movie on Tuesday and dinner in Weehawken NJ with one of our 3-day team members on Wednesday. On Thursday, we saw one of the 3 plays that make up the Norman Conquests - a series of farcical plays about a family weekend somewhere in England. We enjoyed it so much that we opted to see a second one of the plays instead of picking up my mom and Becky at the airport on Friday night. If you ever get the chance to see these, I highly recommend them. I'm hoping to see the third sometime (timewise, they all overlap each other).
On Saturday I went home, leaving from Newark airport. My mom decided that they should see where she grew up, so I got a ride to the airport. In the process of picking a route, Beth managed to find the shortest, rather than the fastest, so we got the scenic tour of Hoboken. The highlight of the trip was when my mom was telling her where to go and she finally got to tell someone to stop being a backseat driver who was actually in the back seat.
Flight was a bit late, which was bad for people making connections, but good for me, since my ride couldn't get to the airport before about an hour after the flight was originally supposed to come in.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Napa Weekend
This past weekend we went to Napa - the reduex of our attempted 10th anniversary trip last year. We had a great time. Some highlights:
Dinner at The Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant - We had starters and entrees, and then dessert. All were great (Cold Corn Soup, Crispy Dumplings, Lamb Kafta and Hanger Steak). I tried to have the Cherry Tart for dessert, but they were out, so they comped Glen's Strawberry and Rhubarb crepes.
We did some wine tasing and driving through the valley on Saturday - and Saturday night we went to La Toque for dinner - we'd been there last year and felt it was fabulous - they have since moved from a small inn in Rutherford to the new Westin in Napa. At first, we thought we might not like it as much, the restauarant is bigger and a little louder, but the service is still outstanding and the food is as Glen said "knock your socks off good". Highlights included White Asaragus with bacon vingerette, Pork Tenderlion with cheese tapioca pearls, porcini ravioli, and Ribeye in a wine sauce. It remains one of our favorite restaurants.
Today, we met our future cruisemates Craig and Barbara (first time in person) and they invited us to a private tating at the White Cottage Winery - owner Dennis gave us a taste of several of his wines, and now I understand when people talk about handcrafted wine now. It's very clear in both his attitude and the taste of the wine that he takes a great deal of care and pride in what he produces.
We then headed down the hill (the winery is in Angin, a town in the hills east of the valley) to St. Helena for lunch at The Market a nice casual restaurant. We'll be seeing them again in February for our cruise.
On the whole an enjoyable weekend with good food.
Dinner at The Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant - We had starters and entrees, and then dessert. All were great (Cold Corn Soup, Crispy Dumplings, Lamb Kafta and Hanger Steak). I tried to have the Cherry Tart for dessert, but they were out, so they comped Glen's Strawberry and Rhubarb crepes.
We did some wine tasing and driving through the valley on Saturday - and Saturday night we went to La Toque for dinner - we'd been there last year and felt it was fabulous - they have since moved from a small inn in Rutherford to the new Westin in Napa. At first, we thought we might not like it as much, the restauarant is bigger and a little louder, but the service is still outstanding and the food is as Glen said "knock your socks off good". Highlights included White Asaragus with bacon vingerette, Pork Tenderlion with cheese tapioca pearls, porcini ravioli, and Ribeye in a wine sauce. It remains one of our favorite restaurants.
Today, we met our future cruisemates Craig and Barbara (first time in person) and they invited us to a private tating at the White Cottage Winery - owner Dennis gave us a taste of several of his wines, and now I understand when people talk about handcrafted wine now. It's very clear in both his attitude and the taste of the wine that he takes a great deal of care and pride in what he produces.
We then headed down the hill (the winery is in Angin, a town in the hills east of the valley) to St. Helena for lunch at The Market a nice casual restaurant. We'll be seeing them again in February for our cruise.
On the whole an enjoyable weekend with good food.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
And now for something completely different
This is not directly related to travel, but people have asked to see my V. Waltz performance from last weekend, and we have video, so here it is:
Please note that for various reasons beyond our control, this routine wasn't quite as ready as we hoped it would be, but we wanted the feedback from the adjudicator, so consider this a best effort and preliminary performance, presented in order to get suggestions to improve the next time, which will probably be December.
At least my mom liked it!
Please note that for various reasons beyond our control, this routine wasn't quite as ready as we hoped it would be, but we wanted the feedback from the adjudicator, so consider this a best effort and preliminary performance, presented in order to get suggestions to improve the next time, which will probably be December.
At least my mom liked it!
Start the Blog
Our trip to South America and Antarctica is now less than 8 months away, and our Cruise Critic group is getting active, so now is as good a time as any to get started.
So far, we have booked our airfare and hotel. We'll be in Beunos Aires for 3 full days before we leave for the cruise and we'll be staying at the Marriott (I knew all those points were good for something besides last years model of electronics!). We're arranging tours and tango experiences with a local travel agent.
So far, we have booked our airfare and hotel. We'll be in Beunos Aires for 3 full days before we leave for the cruise and we'll be staying at the Marriott (I knew all those points were good for something besides last years model of electronics!). We're arranging tours and tango experiences with a local travel agent.
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