Today we went to the Napa Valley Mustard Festival food and wine "marketplace" at the Robert Mondavi Winery in Oakville. I was surprised how elaborate it was! This is a huge winery, and people were everywhere, in all the rooms---the hallways, the courtyard, garden, barrel rooms, halls, everywhere. There were wine tastings all over too, from all the many vineyards in Napa, wine tasting tables everywhere! We couldn't even give a count of how many vineyards were there. There was food too, although not very much. What there was, was excellent, Nimen Ranch cheeseburgers to pulled pork to homemade pizzas, cupcakes, snacks around too. There were many artists there also, including Judy Theo, who is the artist whose prints I bought a few weeks ago in Sonoma. Musicians, good musicians, were playing all over the place too, so you could just sit and listen to them. You paid one price and got 5 food tickets and 8 wine tickets.
It was a nice Napa event, very busy with people. Many of the wines were similar, though I did like the Merlot they were pouring from Robert Mondavi, Napa is always busy on weekends, and today was no exception, though traffic could have been much worse, it took us less than an hour to get back to Novato. Overall a very enjoyable day.
Dan
And you say that WE are always going to IKEA.....(Nice place for meatballs)
ReplyDeleteOur daughter in law works at IKEA as a designer. It is interesting that they do not give the same benefits to U.S.A. employees as they do in Sweden. Particularly in the area of time off for child care. I personally feel like I am too well acquainted with IKEA and if I do not go for another year, that would be fine. Shopping is not a recreational activity to me. I can get all the meatballs I want from other sources. Herring on the other hand....... Dan
ReplyDeleteMost of the benefits you are thinking of, they have to grant by law. If they could get out of it they probebly would.
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