Robin's Birthday Celebration...

Robin's birthday was on Friday and so we had all planned to celebrate on Saturday with a day trip to a local winery followed by dinner there. It was Texas/OU weekend so we couldn't leave Austin until the UT game was over...luckily UT won or I am sure we would have had some unhappy people on the trip. We headed out to Dripping Springs which is about half an hour outside of Austin to the Mandola Winery. It was a beautiful day outside and it was very green there which was a nice change from the dead grass in my front yard.

We got to the place a little too early for the tour so everyone decided to do a little wine tasting first. I want to like wine so badly. I have been to so many wine tastings and really tried so many different kinds and I just don't think I can do it. I am confident there has to be a wine out there for me, but I think that it might have to taste like Coco Cola in order for me to remotely enjoy it. I only managed to try a couple of different kinds before I gracefully bowed out, but the others tried all 9 kinds that were offered. This put everyone in a great mood before the tour!! The tour took like 15 minutes...clearly this is no Napa Valley. Hahaha. It was interesting to see the process though and our group asked the most questions.

Then we bought a couple of bottles of wine and went outside and sat around and just chatted and laughed took way too many pictures. We decided that some people might need some food to go along with their wine so we headed inside to dinner.

Dinner was excellent and hysterical. Apparently a little too hysterical as we were scolded by two different patrons of the restaurant telling our table that we were too loud and one very older gentlemen went as far as to call us "borderline obnoxious." Very nice. The manager came over and apologized to us and encouraged us to carry on because we were obviously having a great time. We were playing games and just laughing a little too loudly I guess. Oops. Then we sang Happy Birthday to Robin, had some gelato and called it a day.

Everyone went home to catch the LSU football which was clearly not worth the drive or the rush because the Tigers didn't even show up to play. Oh well. I think Robin had a great birthday and it was something fun and different to do.

Only 2 more months and it will be my turn to join her in being 27...