Quick stuff

[eee1313]

This was a nice weekend. Friday night I honestly don't remember what I did. I think the Scientist and I just hung out around the house, watched Eureka, etc.

On Saturday he went to work, and fishdoctorpost came out to visit. I was like "I don't know what we'll do until the Scientist gets home." It ended up that we talked for something like three hours, nonstop. Heh. Then he came home, we introduced her to The Middleman and ate salsa, and then hung out some more. fava_bean was running late, so we had dinner without her. Bison burgers = mmmmm! Then the Scientist had to go back to work at the theater (back to school party for the college kids) around 11, so he took fishdoctorpost back to the train.

Yesterday we woke up early (especially for him, as he only got four hours of sleep). We picked up his sister J and fava, and then headed down to the Peoria area for a wine trip. First we stopped at Mackinaw Valley Vineyard, which was very pretty and has a lovely outdoor area complete with a stage for bands. From there, we drove through crazy rainstorms on our way to Kickapoo Creek Winery outside of Peoria. We had tried their chocolate strawberry wine at the Oswego wine fest earlier this year and all loved it. It tastes like chocolate-covered strawberries thrown in a blender. Amazing. Anyway, it turns out they were having a grape stomping competition that we didn't know about (not on the website), and we had to pay $5 a head to get in. However, this covered all of our tastings, so we more than made up for it. Then we drove through Peoria, through a town called Eureka (which is not even close to the Eureka on TV), and headed north to Utica. August Hill Winery is there, and the Scientist and I went there over Valentine's Day. Unfortunately we got there five minutes before closing, so we couldn't try anything, but we did buy a few bottles we liked when we were there before. Then we came home, dropped off fava, had dinner at his parents' house, and came home and collapsed into bed by 9:00. LAME. But it felt good to sleep.

Comments

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I had no idea there were wineries near Peopria! That's where my ex-husband is from, so we used to go there regularly. Of course, that was a long time ago, so maybe the wineries are a new thing. It just seems so not-Peoria to me, though.

Eureka!

[yakgirl.livejournal.com]

Back when I was at PBL, Eureka High School always came to our speech tournament, and I believe I've been to Eureka's high school at least once. I seem to clearly remember what the inside of biology lab looked like... Odd.