SOF stands for Summer of Festivals, otherwise the title is too long. Well this summer I guess we haven't been to as many festivals as we've wanted to but we've still gone to a couple none the less and it's been fun. We went to the Raspberries and Wine Festival at Winehaven in Chisago City, MN. What a great festival! This vineyard is family owned - family run and is gorgeous! We enjoyed some raspberry barbecue ribs, a free wine tasting, live music and tours of the vineyards and winery. We especially loved the Deer Garden Red wine, the grape was actually bred in their vineyard so it's exclusive to this winery! Winehaven has many events going on throughout the year and I think we'll be heading back up there...maybe we'll make it a tradition :) After the festival we headed to Laura and Darren's since they were only about 15 minutes away and plus we wanted to share our new wine find with someone. Laura is a merlot fan and this was a little sweet for her taste but she still liked it. We then made a stop at the Mall of America and IKEA before heading home.
Scott smelling the wine before tasting it
Not quite ripe yet
Sunday after church we decided to FINALLY use our picnic backpack we got last Christmas from Scott's mom. I love this backpack!!! It has everything you'd need in it; plates, utensils, salt and pepper shakers, a blanket, wine holder....I could go on and on. Anyway, so we decided to use our county parks pass and we went to Chester Woods where we hiked until we found a suitable spot to picnic. We actually found a pretty nice spot overlooking the lake! It was a very nice, breezy summer afternoon and we enjoyed our new wine, cheese and crackers.
Our view
I realize this is a weird pic of me
Our lunch (not an ad for Triscuits, although we do like them a lot)
Cheers!
1 comment:
what a freakin connoisseur! look how he has his nose in that little plastic cup! lol!!!
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