Busy Day

[sraun]

iraunink has been wanting a road-trip since ... early September? I realized a couple of days ago that today or tomorrow would be a good time, and pointed this out to her.

She was up between 8:00 & 8:30 (or, as she would put it, oh-dark-thirty) this morning. For those of you who don't know her - she considers 10am the start of morning. She wasn't quite as eager as child on Christmas morning. I got up about 30 minutes later, we did some puttering, got ready, and walked the dogs.

We left the house shortly before 10. We went to Subway for breakfast, then took I-94 over to Wisconsin, where we caught state highway 35 south. Our intended destination was LaCrosse. We stopped at convenience store somewhere south of Prescott, where we got some snacks and two bottles of New Glarus Ale - one Cherry, one Raspberry Tart. We headed farther south, stopping at Maiden Rock Winery & Cidery. There we got two bottles of wine and four-pack of sparkling cider. We had lunch at Third Street Deli somewhere south of Maiden Rock. On the road again, and stopped at Seven Hawks Vineyards - there we got two bottles of wine. Headed further south, gave up before we got to LaCrosse and crossed back into Minnesota at Winona. Stopped at Falconer Vineyards and got three bottles of wine there.

We got home about 5pm, walked the dogs, and order pizza from Papa John's. Trick-or-treaters started showing up. Pizza got here, we had Falconer Vineyards LaCrescent wine with it.

It was a fun day.

Comments

[davidwilford.livejournal.com]

Two weeks ago Erin and I drove down along the Mississippi River to Alma, WI to meet with friends there who also have English Shepherds, and after lunch we all went to a park on the bluff to walk around and enjoy the scenery and the smells, respectively. It is indeed a beautiful drive, and we also stopped at a winery and bought a couple of bottles ourselves.

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

Sounds lovely!