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Dress #32
We had an end of the summer BBQ at work and I wanted to wear something summery for it. Our company used to have BBQs and pancake breakfasts pretty often but I think because the company grew so much they've really toned it down. They did two BBQs this year and one pancake breakfast. The company BBQs are really good. It's Brazilian and they do all kinds of meats and sides. It's a great time for co-workers to relax and mingle plus people can invite their spouses and kids.
I wore my blue green summer dress. I got it in Santa Barbara. Joe and I went there for a day to go wine tasting and check it out. We went to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. They had an exploding flowers photography exhibit by Ori Gersht where the artist freeze dried flowers and then blew them up. I thought it looked really cool. They also had an interesting painting by Salvador Dali called Honey is Sweeter than Blood. It stood out to me from across the room even before I knew it was a Dali painting. I always loved his style. We went to the turtle watching area and got some chocolate from a local sweet shop there. At the turtle pool there was a stupid parent who wasn't watching or disciplining his kid. The kid was walking along the fountain edge and touching and smacking at the turtles. At first I thought the kid was alone but then I saw the parent was off to the side not paying attention or doing anything to discipline the kid. I really hate it when bad parents just let their kids ruin property and hurt animals. That just makes me so mad. Since we came to Santa Barbara for wine tasting, we had a wine flight in one of the wine stores in the area. I thought there'd be wine tasting everywhere but we didn't really see that many places. The specialty flight was various Syrah wines. After the tasting I determined that I do not like Syrah wine at all. It's way too earthy. I felt like I was drinking dirt. I could see how it would go well with mushrooms but I really don't like mushrooms at all either.
We didn't really feel like we had our fill of wine tasting (something Santa Barbara is known for) so we decided to drive further out to see if we could find an actual winery. We headed toward Solvang (a Danish themed town north of Santa Barbara) and along the way we stopped at a vineyard but it was closed for a private wedding event. We ended up at Solvang and decided to do wine tasting there. Basically every other store in Solvang is a wine tasting room. Each flight offers six tastes as opposed to the standard three. We walked around going into three different tasting rooms which ended up being a really bad idea because we got totally hammered. The last wine tasting room we stopped at had a port wine served inside of a chocolate shot glass. It was delicious and a great way to end our wine tasting adventure. However, we were too drunk to drive home. We both ended up falling asleep in the car. The whole town seemed to close pretty early so there wasn't really any place to go inside and wait it out. After our little nap we started out back toward home, but saw an old mission on the way out of town. It was called Santa Ines Mission and Joe wanted to check it out. The sun was setting and it was about to close but we took a quick tour. The sunset cast a pinkish sky and glowing hue over the valley by the mission and we took a few pictures. It was so pretty and a perfect way to end our daily outing.
I wore my blue green summer dress. I got it in Santa Barbara. Joe and I went there for a day to go wine tasting and check it out. We went to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. They had an exploding flowers photography exhibit by Ori Gersht where the artist freeze dried flowers and then blew them up. I thought it looked really cool. They also had an interesting painting by Salvador Dali called Honey is Sweeter than Blood. It stood out to me from across the room even before I knew it was a Dali painting. I always loved his style. We went to the turtle watching area and got some chocolate from a local sweet shop there. At the turtle pool there was a stupid parent who wasn't watching or disciplining his kid. The kid was walking along the fountain edge and touching and smacking at the turtles. At first I thought the kid was alone but then I saw the parent was off to the side not paying attention or doing anything to discipline the kid. I really hate it when bad parents just let their kids ruin property and hurt animals. That just makes me so mad. Since we came to Santa Barbara for wine tasting, we had a wine flight in one of the wine stores in the area. I thought there'd be wine tasting everywhere but we didn't really see that many places. The specialty flight was various Syrah wines. After the tasting I determined that I do not like Syrah wine at all. It's way too earthy. I felt like I was drinking dirt. I could see how it would go well with mushrooms but I really don't like mushrooms at all either.
We didn't really feel like we had our fill of wine tasting (something Santa Barbara is known for) so we decided to drive further out to see if we could find an actual winery. We headed toward Solvang (a Danish themed town north of Santa Barbara) and along the way we stopped at a vineyard but it was closed for a private wedding event. We ended up at Solvang and decided to do wine tasting there. Basically every other store in Solvang is a wine tasting room. Each flight offers six tastes as opposed to the standard three. We walked around going into three different tasting rooms which ended up being a really bad idea because we got totally hammered. The last wine tasting room we stopped at had a port wine served inside of a chocolate shot glass. It was delicious and a great way to end our wine tasting adventure. However, we were too drunk to drive home. We both ended up falling asleep in the car. The whole town seemed to close pretty early so there wasn't really any place to go inside and wait it out. After our little nap we started out back toward home, but saw an old mission on the way out of town. It was called Santa Ines Mission and Joe wanted to check it out. The sun was setting and it was about to close but we took a quick tour. The sunset cast a pinkish sky and glowing hue over the valley by the mission and we took a few pictures. It was so pretty and a perfect way to end our daily outing.
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