Steph's Visit

One of my BESTEST friends is teaching in Mexico City for the next two years. She left in August but was back for the holidays. Steph and I were college roommates and best friends from day one. She was one of the first friends I had when I moved out to California, we worked together, played together, and even backpacked through Europe together. Even though we have not been able to spend as much time together over the last couple of years since she was living in the East Bay and now Mexico City, we still have so much fun when we can get together. She came the day after Christmas and spent a couple nights with us. She wanted to enjoy all their is to enjoy in Sonoma County so we started our weekend with a trip to the Coast on Saturday. Our friend from Holland, Jay, was in town, too, with his son Jayash, so we had a fun little group. What would be a visit to the coast without the fantastic coastal food?? We went to our favorite little food joint, the Boathouse, out in Bodega Bay and enjoyed some yummy clam chowder, fish and chips, and calamari. Yum, yum! After filling our bellies with the yummy goodness, we headed out to Goatrock to check out the waves and walk to beach. We were out there maybe 10 minutes before it started raining but we still managed to have some fun...we just got a little wet!

DELICIOUS!

Zippy was teasing Jayash.  Jayash had mentioned that these rocks looked like a place a mouse would like to hide.  They decided to hunt for one and Zippy kept saying he saw one...before it ran away.

 The waves were huge, this picture doesn't do it justice

 

 Heading back to the car as the rain came pouring down

 

The next day, we headed up to Healdsburg to pick up wine from a few wineries where we were club members.  First, though, we stopped at the Bear Republic Brewery to have a great lunch.  Seriously, the food around Sonoma County is so yummy-we are so spoiled!  This was the first time I ordered an actuall meal for Grevin at a restaurant.  He had a grilled cheese, fries, and some veggies.  Little piggy ate it all!

Waiting outside for a table

 Grevin really wanted to try the brews!

 

After lunch, we headed out to Truett Hurst, one of my current favorite wineries.  The people are friendly, the wine is great, and they are very kid friendly.  They are also a biodynamic farm so they have a great garden and animals for Grevin to check out.  They also have access to Dry Creek where there were salmon jumping this time of year.  We went to check it out but didn't see any even though there were other people in the tasting room who did.  I think Grevin and Zippy scared them off throwing rocks in the water.  Geez, boys.

It was such a nice visit and I miss her so much already!  I am hoping I can sneak down to visit her while she is there....