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First, a quick shout out… I miss my pups!

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Today was fantastic! It was very scheduled, but with a ton of fun places. After having an amazing breakfast at the hotel, we headed to our first stop: Domaine Chandon. When we were here last time, we took off for a hot air balloon in their field, but didn’t get a chance to taste. We fixed that!

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Then we headed over to Dean & Deluca’s to pick up some lunch for later. I love that store and had some fun playing around.

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Our next stop was my most anticipated and favorite of the day… Far Niente! It’s a gorgeous property that’s by appointment only. They didn’t disappoint.

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We then went over to their sister winery Nickel and Nickel. It was fun to taste there because we have several of their bottles at home, but hasn’t tried them. Now we know what’s good! The photo is of soil because this winery only produces single vineyard and each area is extremely different.

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Our last wine stop was to Robert Mondavi. A great tour… Fun to learn that he grew up in Minnesota!!

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And to cap off the day, we had a great dinner at Cole’s Chop House… Steaks!

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Day 2 of vacation, Day 1 of travel!! We woke up today to the pooch needing to play right away. I think it was his ploy to have us not leave.

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We dropped him off at our friends house (thanks Ladies!) and then headed to the airport. We stopped for a quick lunch at Ike’s where I enjoyed an amazing Bloody Mary. I mean, come on!!

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Once we boarded the plane, the excitement over came me! It started to rain so I’m not sure we’ll miss the MSP.

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We landed in San Fran and started the drive to Napa. It’s gorgeous here! Amazing weather at 8 pm at night. We’re currently enjoying a BBQ dinner at the hotel before retiring to watch the season finale of GOT.

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A fantastic start to the week!!

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I snapped a few photos of some of the beautiful flowers this morning while walking Diohgé.

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Today was a day to run errands and get ready for our trip to Napa. We headed to the dog park before getting a haircut, Petsmart for food and hitting the mall. At the park, the pooch wanted us to chase him… He had a stick.

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Then we took him to get some ice cream. 🙂

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Vacation baby!! I left work today at 2:30 so that I could start my vacation… With beer! A good friend and I enjoyed a few beers at the Local to start the fun.

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Then tonight Dave and I attended another charity auction through Target. We might have purchased a little trip in the live auction. I guess 2013 will be the year of trips. And we also won a dual membership to the YMCA (paid $50 and worth $1280!!). I’ll be selling that later.

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Of course we had to come home and see that innocent looking pooch.

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