I love when BevMo have their 5 cents sale!
Yep, you buy one bottle for regular price and get the second one for 5 cents!
It’s great for trying out new wines and a little more pricier wines that you normally wouldnt buy, since you get two bottles for the price of one!I love chocolate, and I like wine, but I’m not so sure about chocolate wine… maybe I will have the guts to buy it next time I go to the store.
I often buy wine after the label and found a bottle of Bear Flag white wine at a local 7-11 store one late night. Thought the label was really cool and it turned out the wine was not bad either!
Tangy is helping me write some important documents.
I was asked to get into work one hour early today, I set the alarm super early hoping I’d get my butt up and do some work before I had to be in the office. It was a little depressing to see the screen on my phone.
But, getting into work early also means I can get home early, my co-worker told me to go home and crack open a bottle of wine, so I did! It’s been a lot of drinking wine out of plastic cups lately, so it was nice to do it the proper today!
And then for dinner… I don’t think I want to know what is in the Abba Fiskbullar, but they are delicious!
Bummed out to be heading back home 🙁
We did have some time for a last glass of wine.
I dug up my iPod from my ski bag last night so the 30 minutes up the mountain from San Martin to Chapelco was a big sing-along fest. Once we got there, it was a little gray, and the mountain didn’t seem that big, and a little boring – not much mountain to speak of, more like a big hill. But, what the heck, lets make the best of it!
We went straight to the top, and the first run down was in snow blizzard. The snow felt awesome under our feet, a few inches of fresh powder, but I get emotion sick when I don’t have a point of reference to concentrate my eyes on, and it feels like you are going super fast while you are standing still, so the first run was not that great. I did not have to whine for very long before we found the trees. 
The tree runs were beautiful! All by ourselves, fresh tracks, reference points, rocks and small drops, a huge playground!
Another great day of skiing, and we didn’t have to hike!
That soon turned into a mud road! Great, we only had 100km to go!
There were a short moment when I thought we might have made a wrong turn somewhere, but we kept on meeting other cars and trucks and we eventually, after a couple of hours made our way to San Carlos de Bariloche. 
It was closer to 11pm when we got our food, but it was well worth the wait!
Bariloche has a few casinos, one was on our way home. I’m not much of a gambler, but Magnus loves casinos and while the guys were debating whether we should go in or not, I took the initiative and walked through the door. The rest did not hesitate and walked straight to a black jack table. I watched them loose some monies for a while before one of them gave me 100 pesos and told me to sit down and play with them. One drink and a bunch of high fives later I had doubled the pesos and it was time to check out! 
The road didn’t get much better this morning, so we quickly decided to take it easy, not rush to the mountain, get there when we get there and chill in the town instead.
And then ice cream off course!
Since it’s a relatively small town with only one main street, we managed to find my first layer shirt quickly, but unfortunately no postcard for my grandfather. 
And the 1 liter bottles of beers off course! Much more social to buy one large bottle and share than many small ones!
On the way home I was kind of in my own little world, as usual thinking about happy clouds when I suddenly caught the boys drooling while staring at this window. Sorry Nea, we’re eating this for dinner tonight! Quickly in to make a reservation for 9:30pm!
El touristo!
Back to the hostel for a game of dominos and backgammon.
Playing with the flash – to cool for school!
We were all super excited for dinner, this was gonna be our first proper dinner at a restaurant together, and the guys were gonna get to eat whatever they were gonna get to eat… When we were about 5 steps away from the restaurant where we had reserved a table, the whole town turned black. The city ran out of power! Everything was dark, except, wait, our restaurant still had power! We are pretty good at picking restaurants!
Argentina are proud of their red meat, and they apparently know how to cook it as well. I would not know since I dont like red meat. But I’m not so picky and there is always something on the menu that I can eat, like seafood or chicken, and if not there’s always fries and a bowl of ice cream. Since the Chileans really know how to cook seafood and we were only 45km away from the Chilean border, I ordered trout, which was awesome!
We were finishing up a project a while ago and we received our payment, but we have all been busy and not been able to get together earlier. These boxes has just been sitting there, waiting to be open.
We finally got together and were all really excited to see what was inside!
Wohoo!
Lots of boxes, and lots of wine… One case each.
What’s in this box Yo?
Wine pretty much everywhere!
It did not take that long before the first bottle was open…
We packed up Olga 3, my car, and took a road trip up to Solvang this weekend.
About 1 mile away from home, I did not see a huge whole in the road and it sounded like the trip was gonna end right there, but luckily, all we had to do was to restore the iPod and the journey could continue.
Driving along the coast the whole way is not the quickest, but way more fun than the freeways.
The way up was not entirely adventure free, a Hummer in front of us on PCH blew a tire and if we had not payed enough attention we would have hit the tire and it would probably have ended a little ugly. The shotgunner in Olga 3 who is usually paparazzi style fast with the shutter did not manage to take a photo even though he had two cameras in his lap.
There’s an ostrich farm on Route 246 between Bulleton and Solvang, they charge $4.00 to enter the farm and an additional $1.00 if you want to feed the birds. They also have a sign up saying that you are not allowed to stop on the road outside to take pictures. We thought that was ridiculous, made a U-turn, pulled over and snapped some photos, just because we could.
Solvang is a small Danish town close to Santa Barbara, about 120 miles north of Los Angels. It is surrounded by wineries and I have no idea of why this town looks like it belongs on Jylland.
Ready for some wine tasting!
It is off season and the grapes seemed a little sad.
We were recommended to check out the Sunstone Winery, so we did.
Once when me and my sister went to London, we checked in to a dodgy hotel and the manager told us we absolutely had to check out and take a photo of the lovely view from the hotel window, he really pointed this out. It turned out the view was some construction and a train station. We did of course take a photo of the view. We had a similar experience at this vineyard; the lady that hit us up with the white wine insisted on her taking a photo of us in this archway. I did not pay attention to what she said, but she mentioned something about a postcard.
The Sunstone Winery cellar.
The first red wine cheer! Their wine did not really impress me.
There was this halo around the sun, I dont know what that was all about, but it was cool!
We heard good things about the Olive Garden in Solvang, so we payed them a visit, they had really good balsamic vinegars, in addition to the the wine off course!
Bought a bottle of the Twenty Mile -07 Sauvignon Blanc, it reminded me of grandpa’s home made elderflower drink. The girl behind the bar signed it.
Time to head home after an awesome weekend!
