This morning we slept in until 10AM – glorious
vacation! We even skipped breakfast o
that we could be extra hungry for lunch.
We headed out on our drive to Fair View, a vineyard with cheese tasting
and a restaurant, basically heaven. On the way we discovered that our radio was not working but that we had an aux in cable! Hooray for all of the music we have on our phones! Oh wait... everything is in the cloud... And we have no data. So, we were stuck listening to my marathon playlist. We now know all the words (sounds?) to Gangham Style and also most Pitbull songs. #forthewin. Aaaaaanyway, Fair
View is famous for their goats (and goat cheese! Yum!), and when you drive up
to park your car, you are next to the goat enclosure. And like every good goat enclosure there is a
goat tower with a goat ladder.
Obviously.
(If I were a goat, I would live in this tower, or maybe France - it's a toss up)
I'm actually seriously impressed at their ability to climb their little goat stairs. But I guess if there are two hay filled goat apartments at stake, I would brave the ladder even if my feet were cloven. And sometimes when life gives you the opportunity, you need to take a selfie with goats in a tower.
Our party did a tasting of 6 wines and 6 cheeses for a grand
total of $2.50/person. Did I mention we
are never coming home?
Our tasting
coordinator even let us taste a 2001 Shiraz that is quite famous throughout the
country and not on the menu. It turns
out there was only ONE BOTTLE left, and we snapped it right up. Their next vintage is the 2012, so we feel
pretty much like we won the wine lotto.
It’ll be quite enjoyable post baby.
I also think Eric is particularly enjoying this trip, as he ends up
handling my share of the tasting due to the fact that I am takin’ care of our
little boy. Good thing vineyards are pretty!
After tasting some wine, we headed over to the other side of
the room to taste their CHEESE. We even got to taste this…
I declined. I'm not sure who Donald is, but his poor goats...
They did have a France-worthy bread selection...
Cheese, bread, and wine, my three favorite food groups!
After a delightful lunch (pasta in a cream sauce with
zucchini and chunks of salami – Mmmmm!), we took a nice drive to the university
town of Stellenbosch. Such a nice little
town and great for walking. We had a bit
of gelato, and I realized that I ALWAYS order coffee flavored gelato, and when
I don’t I am always disappointed. And
inevitably Eric and I will order the same thing unless we confer beforehand. Awwwwww! (Ok, you can go vomit now).
(We asked the lady behind the counter how to say the name of the flavor in the front left of this picture. She shrugged and said, "I don't know, do I look Italian to you?" Um, well, not exactly...)
My gelato: Espresso and Biscotti flavored!
While we were walking around we saw this sign...
Apparently Stellenbosch is for steak lovers, alert Ron Burgundy. Also I feel awkward about eating the steak from the national animal. Poor springboks.
Some beautiful flowers for sale.
And as we drove home, I snapped this shot of our
neighborhood – check out those mountains!
After putting our friend’s toddler down for the night, the
adults headed out to Bosa restaurant in Sommerset West (the town where we are
staying), and ordered dinner. It was
difficult for me to conceive of a Bosa that does not serve exclusively
doughnuts, but I did order a delicious pizza that had avocado on top. And let me just say that the avocados I buy
at Fry’s are superior to any I’ve seen here.
Arizona and Mexican food for the win (at least today). Eric also got a
delicious treat in the form of a very cheap glass of what is normally
outrageously expensive Scotch. The
verdict is that although he loved it, we are still too cheap to buy a bottle of
Johnnie Walker Blue.
Tune in tomorrow to hear about laundry (Yay! I won’t really
tell you about the laundry I did, but it did eat up a significant chunk of my
morning. Womp womp.), decorating the
house (yay for real), the windiest tea I’ve ever had, and how we
barbequed. Indoors.
Goodnight for now!
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