the details look like this:
sunday
rachel and ursula leave for san francisco. it's looking like a nice day. we learned two things at the border. 1.don't tell them that one of you does "nothing" for a living. 2.don't have a visa (let alone for both people) from india.
monday
slept in. tried to do some shopping in healdsburg. clearly it's not our kind of shopping. it's pretty "older white lady housewifey". but we did go for lunch at dry creek kitchen. rachel's meal: champagne, mini lobstertail to start. pan seared bass with pinot noir sauce and pinot noir wine. i had champagne, organic greens salad, hand-rolled gnocci with pesto sauce and pinot noir to drink. we shared blackberry-lemon triffle and baked alaska. it was a wicked meal. then we went to santa rosa to shop. we started at the crap mall... but that was good, cause we found wicked hair products for $1 each. then we went to "the big mall" and despite me doing way less shopping than rachel (i could barely move, because i slipped a disc) i bought 9 pairs of underwear, 2 bras, and a scarf. rachel bought 1 pair of underwear. then we went back to healdsburg and had dinner courtesy of aunt pattie. she showed us the receipt for having won $12 000 at the casino. we went back to wade's and crashed.
tuesday
did some wine tasting at rochambo and kendall-jackson and some free chocolate tasting too! oh, and i bought 12 bottles. on our way to san fran as we drove across the golden gate, there was traffic stopped in both directions and EMTs and police etc. we asked at the toll why, and she said, very casually that there was probably a jumper. anyway. first stop: skechers store. this was a big thing for me. 1. i love skechers, 2. lately i haven't been loving shoes. word on the street: shoes are back in!!! when we walked in, the guy was like: oh, did you get a coupon? nope! so he gave wade and me one each, and wade scratched 40% off! oh yeah! i'd like to extend a warm welcome to the 5 pairs of shoes that i purchased. i wish i could be welcoming the cute pink kate spade bag!!! dinner was at langley's in windsor. obviously we had a bottle of bubbley to start... i mean come on... it's wade latest thing. wade's meal: butter lettuce salad, and mushroom ravioli. rachel had butter lettuce salad and i had romaine hearts salad and we shared an eggplant dish with cheese etc. gorgeous. too full for dessert. if you can believe it. we did get a free roasted red pepper and mushroom soup and muffins to take with us. it was the chef's first day there. then we went back to wade's after picking up Chef T'ai (the pastry chef at dry creek) and had more wine and and chocolate before dying for the night.
wednesday
drove back. stopped at the hanes outlet store and rachel bought 2 bras.
phrases to remember from this trip with wade:
well, i am jewish you know
low-rent
i don't eat pork
just wait until i break out into yiddish
i got my sister that bag for christmas, i mean hannukah
i'm all like... and then she's all like...
on the way back, we were sure we were going to get stripped searched... and have to pay a tonne of duty, especially on the booze. instead, it turns out the guy is related to a friend of rachel's from naturopathic school. the same friend whose birthday was two days ago. no strip search, no duty. sa-weet.
all-in-all a great trip. with all this wine (did i mention the 50% off grower's discount we got?) i'm going to have to plan a wine and cheese. yahoo!
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