Solvang

This last weekend Stephanie and I headed up to Solvang which is a little Dutch communty about 30 miles north/east of Santa Barbera. It took us about 4.5 hours to get there and we arrived around 12:30. It was raining when we got there so we grabbed some lunch then decided to drive around and see what was available and then checked into the hotel.

Luckily, soon after it had stopped raining so we head out and looked in a few shops. Soon after we found a winery that was offering wine tasting. I decided to go in and it was $5 to taste 5 wines. Both Stephanie and I did and enjoyed it. The winery told us they had a sister winery just down the street and we could taste there wines for half price. We stopped at a chocolate place and Stephanie got was apparently the better than sex white chocalate peanut butter barrel.

After that we got to the second winery and tried five more wines. The thing about this wine tasting was that we were drinking the wine instead of spitting it out or pooring the rest out. We hit two more wineries drinking 11 or 12 more wines, walked out with 3 bottles of wine, 6 wine glasses and drunk off our asses.

We headed back to the hotel and dropped off the wine and went out to dinner where we each had another glass of wine. After that we went to a bar and stayed out until 11 drinking more wine. We were completely wasted. We went back to the hotel and passed out.

The next morning resulted in the worse hang over I ever head. A migrain set in along with plenty of puking and shaking. At around 8:30 I was able to hold down water and excedrin, 9:30 I was able to hold down apple juice, and by 10:30 I was able to hold down solids so we got some breakfast. Funny enough Stephanie had as much to drink as I have (I rarely see her drink) and though she didn't feel great she was definatly better of than me. We left at 11:30. The problem was that I drove my new car because I had all the entertainment (CD player, satellite radio, ipod hookup) but Stephanie was use to driving a standard.