Adventuring in Sonoma

A year or so ago, LivingSocial and similar websites were all the rage.  Look at all this fun stuff you can do!  And it's cheap! So fun!  And we did a couple, but then I think society got burned out by all the emails, the activities weren't as fun as they sounded when advertised and it wasn't as good a "deal" for getting new business as the companies had thought.  So my "Do 3 LivingSocial things" got modified to "Do 3 new things you wouldn't normally have signed up for".

Number three basically jumped off the sidewalk and tripped us!  While out in Sonoma the other day, we decided to get a glass of wine at this wine bar that we like, but hardly ever go to.  And saw this sign:

Can you read that?  It says "Seminar with wine & food pairings of wines from the EXACT RANDOM REGION IN ITALY THAT CARRIE AND NICK ARE GOING TO IN SIX WEEKS." 

Puglia is the heel of the boot, Sicily is the soccer ball that the "boot of Italy" is kicking. We're spending about half our trip in Puglia, but not heading to Sicily. 

Our seminar leader Lito (Lino? gosh, I forgot already...) worked for a large winery in Italy as their sales guy in the US.  He was super dynamic and brought really fun wines we don't normally get here: Fiano, Nero d'Avola, Negroamaro.  The food pairing was yummy (except that I really just don't like olives...) and one of Nick's co-workers & his wife came too.  Very unfortunately, Nick had to work at 10p - so he was truly just tasting and I "had" to finish his glasses for him.  Equally unfortunately, they were offering the wines at super good prices, Lino said the prices that they were selling for a bottle were the price of one GLASS at most restaurants - but we have so.much.wine. right now that we didn't buy any.  Next time!

And there IS a next time - he's coming back in February!  (And he offered to help us with our trip planning/connections there... I hope he comes through!)

And to #97 - do something fun - 3/3 CHECK!