Mendo

So here are some more photos from our trip to the Sonoma coast and Mendocino last weekend. I am addicted to groupons and also love planning out every second of fun, so we did a lot in 3 days and this is what we did. First groupon was for a wine tasting and winery tour at Iron Horse Vinyards in Sebastopol starting at 10am. This meant we started drinking champagne at like 10:15am. The deal included a free bottle to take, so we got one of their Russian Cuvee, which is the same sparkling white that Reagan served to Gorbachev at some summit, no biggie.

On the way out of the vinyard, we stopped the car so I could steal a million apples off a tree and totally got caught but the guy let me go prob because I sounded so pathetic: "but they're just falling off the treeeeeee." Whatever ima make a shit ton of apple butter. Then we drove to the Sonoma coast to Salt Point state park and camped at Gerstle Cove campground.

The forecast said sunny and low 70s. This was the actual weather at our campground.

We walked around the coast and looked at the beach in the fog and then went back to the campsite after a while to build a fire and drink beer and make smores and go to bed at 9pm. Then we woke up the next day and my entire body hurt because sleeping on the ground is hard when you're elderly and a princess, then we drove north on highway 1 and stopped to pose for photos looking super greasy and cracked.

Our second groupon was for a night at a fancy spa resort in Mendocino, but we couldn't check in until 4pm so we had lunch at Cafe Beaujolais and wandered around the town of Mendocino and bought fudge and looked in bookstores and went to some weird museum in an early settler's old house with a weird volunteer docent who was a member of the northern California mycological society and told us about hunting wild mushrooms. And we walked around the coast and took more photos.

Our room at the resort wasn't ready when we got there because they were installing a new $5000 king sized memory foam bed, so they let us sit at the bar and pour ourselves glass after glass of local wine. Poor us. I think my favorite part of the resort was eating delicious farm to table dinner with our bottle of Russian champagne and then going back to the room and watching Breaking Bad and eating red vines in bed with the heat on. The next morning after breakfast we each got spa treatments before we had to quickly drive back down to Berkeley in time for my class at 4. #whinecountry









These are some really tall trees we stopped to pose by on the drive back. I want more vacation.