I didn't post last week because nothing exciting happened to share. I could have said everything was going good still but that is boring!
Well there was some snow 2 weeks ago for a day or 2 but nothing stuck to the ground. The mountain is getting snow now which is good! Since I have to park on the street at my house, when it snows or if there is a chance the roads will need to be sweeped in the morning, I can't park on the street during those times. So the few days it snowed here I parked at work and walked home and then walked back to work in the morning. The roads were never snowy but since there was a chance of snow I didn't want to get towed for parking on the street. I can say that was the first time I had walked to work! Having a lot of firsts here in Mt. Shasta! :)
Another first would be at the grocery store at the check out, for my total of lets say 17.50, the cashier said one seven five zero. Definitely caught me off guard and had to think about what she just said. Hahaha never heard a total said like that.
Another first is I went and ate at Black Bear Diner for dinner and wanted to order ice cream. They had a specialty ice cream listed first and it was a Black Bear Diner original with chocolate ice cream, caramel and walnuts. I ordered it and the waitress said we don't have that, which at that point I thought they were out of it and then she said, we haven't had that since I have worked here. How do you have a specialty ice cream on your menu listed first and have never had it! hahah thought it was funny!
So Saturday I drove down to Napa Valley to do a bike tour through the vineyards. When I got there I took abby to the park which was an off leash dog park and trails and it was really nice to let her off leash with other people and dogs and not worry about anything. Abby absolutley loved it! Here are a few pics of her enjoying herself.
Sunday I drove to Yountville which was 10 miles from my hotel and shopped around in the little shops and then met for my bike tour through the vineyards and 2 stops at wineries for tasting.
We were early so the tour guide asked if we wanted to go early and bike about 5miles further so we all agreed. After the first hill we started having people stop for breaks and my legs were burning within 5 min of starting our tour. I thought I was going to be in trouble. We biked past a winery here in the pic below that was purposefully built on a hill so they can look down over everything. The tour guide said that there wine is very rare to find to buy and its about 1000 dollars a bottle if you can find it.
We then continued to bike and then came to a Winery called Clos Du Val, which was our first stop for wine tasting. We got to go in the private room for our tasting and it smelt like sweet wine! It was a great experience and the group of people I was with were fun to hang out with.
We then went to the next stop which was called Monticello. Again we did the wine tasting and then drove our bikes back to the starting point. Overall we biked 18 miles and my butt and knees and legs felt every inch of it! One girl cracked me up and would not use her breaks so she would just ride off into the grass and stop and then the last break we took she just tipped over the curb to stop. I was like you know there are breaks....lol! Overall I had a great time!!! I would recommend that tour for the more in shape people due to the intense workout I got in my legs riding 18 miles and I hadn't been on a bike since I was little.
On the way home I got to see Mt. Shasta covered in snow from the highway, it was absolutely beautiful!!
