June 2019 – Spacial Peepol

Sunrise with a few raindrops on the window. Not raining when I took the photo but had been a little earlier.

Supposed to be a off and on rainy day.

I haven’t posted for a few weeks, so will catch you up, though there is not much to update on.

However, let’s start with this last weekend.

Friday we went to the Burning Brothers Tap room. Place of great gluten free beer and a food truck also serving gluten free food. Had a pint there and some Cuban GF food. It was fun to do as the weekend was the back to 50s car weekend at the State Fair Grounds. The tap room is in that area so we get to see quite a few beautiful old cars while driving to get there.

Saturday was a fairly nice morning so we decided to go to a wine festival in Chisago, MN.

We had never been to that vineyard before. It was very nice. For 10.00 we did the wine tasting. Some tasty wines made there! We also did a little tour of the fields and so on, got to hear the history and ask questions. Some great live music out there along with different vendors. Lots of places to sit, sip, and enjoy. Also a food truck out there and they serve a few things as well. But a very relaxed, pleasant environment.

At the last minute, we decided, since it was fairly close to the kids, to ask if they wanted to join us. We like spending time with them as well!

They did join us, didn’t do the wine tasting but went on the little walking tour.

And these are the faces of people doing something that was my idea. (one of the reasons I don’t say much in the ‘what do we want to do’ department). Yes, that is my 40 year old son in law sticking his tongue out at me. It is actually pretty hard to get a decent photo when he is involved. He has managed to ruin quite a few wonderful photo ops with his desire to annoy. Frankly, I am pretty over caring about it and will just post them regardless from here on out. Not funny but his choice. However, he is a very nice, intelligent guy and I enjoy being with him regardless. He is a real sweetheart. There is not a thing I would change about him. Just sayin’…. 🙂

Oldest daughter and grandson. Are we having fun yet?

While on the walking part of the tour we spied this:

A beautiful carriage giving carriage rides.

This is the gorgeous guy pulling it, he actually looked like he was enjoying himself!

Such a beautiful carriage!

On the way to the vineyard we came across the Patriots Ride that was taking place this weekend, lots of motorcycles.

Police were directing traffic and people had chairs by the side of the road, waving as they went by. Very inspiring.

After the Winery tour we went to Wisconsin (since we were close to the border) to pick up some fireworks for the 4th of July and to dinner.

The Dalles House…never been there before, it has an old Supper Club type of feeling. When we walked in, we didn’t hold much hope, BUT it turned out very nicely.

They did the Gluten Free food well, it was good. I was going to take photos of the food, but tend to put my phone away and just converse with folks, so I forgot to photograph the food. Yes, an old fashioned idea I guess, but it’s generally like, what, a 45 minute span in a 24 hour day. Still, I will try harder to remember to take a photo of the food.

I WILL say, that though the food was pretty good, it took quite a while to get it. So service was slow, but the wait person was really pretty good. But then again, we were like one of three tables that had people at them, it was early for dinner. So I don’t know what took them so long to make the food. But all in all, it was pretty pleasant. You know, good company. 🙂