Seattle Wine Touring 2011

We signed up for the wine tour again.  It was good and we purchased more wine to bring home.  We went to most of the same wineries and a few new ones.  Chateau St. Michelle was good as before.  The other places had some good wine and this time, we just purchased by the glass what we wanted.  That was more fun and to our speed.

In Pioneer Square, here's some pictures of fun stuff and our two most expensive stores.

Seattle 2011 Tour completed

We decided to go to Seattle again because we weren't able to fully see everything we wanted last year.  This was a quick trip as I'm still Gold status on Delta.  We put the trip together quickly.  We were lucky with good weather.  We walked all over and were able to see the sites we weren't able to last time.  Here are some of the places was went to ~ Sculpture park, downtown, Pike's Market, Chinatown and Pioneer Square.  We also really wanted to give Brian a chance to be fitted at the Utilikilt store.  We went a couple of times and purchased two more kilts.  It was great.  Next door was a great store where I purchased my first corset.  Awesome!

Antigua 2011 Daily routine

I've found that for vacations, I tend to wake up at the crack of dawn.  I'd be up at 7 AM.  It's odd.  Then I realized w/o TV or internet, I'd be in bed early and sleeping at around 9 PM.  This vacation was no exception.  I enjoyed every morning a fresh breakfast at 7 AM and headed off to the lovely beach.  The beach was awesome, especially with our floaties to relax on.

Around noon, I'd head off to lunch and avoid the hot hot sun.  Afternoon, I'd happily by the private pool by our room and enjoy my books.  I read over 40 books which is was awesome.  This vacation was relaxing and fun.  I was able to connect with Brian again, just the two of us.  I love our vacations together.

Antigua 2011

This year for a Caribbean trip, we go to Antigua.  We went to a Sandals resort for two week.  It was relaxing.  Here are some of the pictures of the place.  It isn't as big as some of the other places I've gone.  Here's my review of the resort on Trip Advisor.

 

Christmas 2010 Everglade park

The trip felt as if I went on a birding outing.  We saw birds at the different various parks.  Here are a few.

Christmas 2010 with the family

This year, we went to Naples, Florida.  Brian and I had been hoping it would be really warm in Florida since it is in the South.  Well, we were wrong.  They had a freak freezing below average Christmas.  The windows were all frosted with NO ice scraper.  The airboat ride was so cold.  This is the fourth vacation in a row that we have had unseasonably cold weather.

It all started in Dominican Republic.  The first day was too hot for me and I asked for just a few days of cool weather for me to adjust.  The weather dropped 20 degrees, the humidity disappeard and it rained for 5 days.  Then in Galapagos, I was afraid of overheating in my thick wetsuit so I hoped it wouldn't be too hot.  The water was unseasonably cool in the mid 60s and lower.  There wasn't a single sunny day to heat our black wetsuits.  In Seattle I thought, I want to go snow showing in the mountains.  I didn't expect us to have a freak blizzard accumulating inches in snow that stopped traffic for over 5 hours.  So... this last trip this year, I thought, what could go wrong?  It can't be that cold in Florida.  WRONG!  I'm starting to think I bring a chill with me everywhere I go.