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Happy Travel Tuesday! We leave for Ireland in a month, and have a trip to New Jersey to visit family in between then and now so I am feeling good about feeding the wanderlust these days. We’re also still reminiscing about an amazing Sonoma holiday over Labor Day weekend, so today I thought I would share some out and about photos, places I didn’t necessarily photograph in-depth and pretty pictures I caught along our travels. Enjoy!

Napa roads

{Napa County Road and the bluest sky}

 

Hog Island Oyster Company

{Hog Island Oyster Co. – get ready for some shucking!}

Sonoma Coast

{The Magnificent Sonoma Coast}

Girl and the Fig, Sonoma

{Chocolate and Fig Salted Caramel Trifle at The Girl and the Fig}

Passaggio Tasting Room, Sonoma {Passaggio Wines new tasting room in Sonoma – I love Passaggio Wine but was not bright enough to check the tasting room hours and showed up on a closed day. From what I could see, it is beautiful.}

 

Russian River Valley sunset

{Russian River Valley sunset from our Flipkey Sonoma home}

Truett Hurst

{Sun-baked Dry Creek Valley land in August – I LOVE the heat.}

Truett Hurst

{Cooling off at Truett Hurst, one of my favorite Dry Creek Valley wineries}

Truett Hurst

{Truett Hurst Sauvignon Blanc, riverside}

Dry Creek General Store

{Dry Creek General Store – a favorite for a cold beer, Dry Creek Valley views, great sandwiches, and people-watching}

Holdredge Pinot Noir

{Gorgeous Pinot Noir, Grateful Dead memorabilia, and rap music at Holdredge – so.much.fun. Who says wine is snobby?}

Napa Valley Sunset

{Sunset as we left Napa Valley on our last evening}

Tags: California, California wine country, Food, Napa, Napa Valley, Restaurants, Sonoma, Sonoma County, Travel, travel posts, Travel Tuesday, wine, wine blog, wine blogger, wine tasting, wine travel, winery

Monday seems like a good day for a roundup of happy things, don’t you think? Our weekend was a mix of home time and being out and about at the Head of the Charles, on the boat, and with a visit to Duxbury Beach. I don’t care how cold it gets out, I am happiest near the sea!

French toast sticks Lots has been happening lately, especially at work! The hotel I work for, the Royal Sonesta Boston, just completed a major renovation, and that includes the opening of a new coffee shop that’s open for breakfast, lunch, and afternoon treats. House made items like French toast sticks and pastries are tough to have in the building, but I am loving having easy access to a really good double espresso in the afternoon without having to take a ton of time away from my desk.  This will definitely come in handy in the winter.

Canvas Pop

Lately we have been ever-so-slowly settling into our house. We are far behind where we would like to be due to a really ugly situation with a crooked plumber that has been going on since February. Despite this frustration, little things like the above Canvas Pop canvas, made from our own travel photos, are making our house a place we love.

g20 spa

Speaking of this plumber situation, any way we can relieve stress has been a draw, and the week after we went to court and thought we were done with him, we spent a date night at G20 Spa in Boston to unwind. Massages, followed by sparkling wine in their penthouse lounge made for a perfect Friday night.

Boston spa day

Working near Kendall Square has been making me really happy lately too. I was so incredibly excited when Mother Juice opened up, offering great smoothies and juices and really yummy, healthy salads. I don’t leave work often for lunch since we have a free cafeteria, but when I do get out, I make a beeline to Mother Juice.

Mother Juice

One thing not making me happy? My lack of motivation for exercise. I have downloaded the Pop Sugar fitness app to try to make myself do some short workouts, and while I love it, I haven’t really been actually using it.

What are your recent favorites? Any tips on getting motivated?

Tags: cambridge, favorites, Food, hotels

Wine-loving friends in Boston, there’s an opportunity this week to sip some great wines for an amazing cause. Please see below for more information!

Raise Your Glass for Jimmy presented by the Jimmy Fund Council of Greater Boston

Wine tasting event is Thursday, Oct. 23

BOSTON – The fifth annual Raise Your Glass for Jimmy presented by the Jimmy Fund Council of Greater Boston will take place at the Fairmont Battery Wharf in Boston on Thursday, Oct. 23 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Admission to the event includes a wide variety of wines to taste, hors d’oeuvres, live music, a silent auction, and a wine bottle drawing. Participating wine vendors include Ansonia Wines, Boston Bottle, Gordon’s Fine Wines and Liquors, Lattanzio Wines, M.S. Walker, and Plymouth Bay Winery. All proceeds support adult and pediatric cancer care and research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Among the silent auction items will be a two-night stay for four at Benziger Winery in Sonoma Valley, Calif., with American Airlines tickets, two tickets to the Nov. 23 New England Patriots game against the Detroit Lions, a one-night stay plus breakfast at the Fairmont Battery Wharf, one cooking class and dinner for six at the Fairmont Battery Wharf, and a four-course chef’s tasting menu with wine pairings for four from Strega.

For $25, patrons can participate in the wine bottle drawing. Participants are guaranteed that the bottle they will win is equal to or greater than the $25 they contributed.

Tickets are $50 per person and the first 150 participants at the door will receive a $25 gift certificate from Tresca. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.jimmyfund.org/raise-your-glass. Please note all tickets will be held at the door on the night of the event.  

About The Jimmy Fund

The Jimmy Fund (www.JimmyFund.org) solely supports Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, raising funds for adult and pediatric cancer care and research to improve the chances of survival for cancer patients around the world. The Jimmy Fund is the official charity of the Boston Red Sox, the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, the Pan-Mass Challenge, and the Variety Children’s Charity of New England. Since 1948, the generosity of millions of people has helped the Jimmy Fund save countless lives and reduce the burden of cancer for patients and families worldwide. Follow the Jimmy Fund on Facebook: www.facebook.com/thejimmyfund and on Twitter: @TheJimmyFund.

Tags: Boston, charity events, charity raffles, events, wine, wine country, wine travel

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