Wine Country

After checking out all the fossils on the beach at Joggins we headed to Wolfville to spend the night at an the Olde Lantern Inn and the next day traipsing around vineyards. This was my favorite party of our honeymoon. Most likely because it was the most 'honeymoon-y' part. :)

We arrived around 8 and startled the girl waiting in the lobby. I think we may have been supposed to knock, but that didn't occur to us and we walked right in. She quickly showed us to our room, The Wine Cellar. It was super sweet. The pictures online don't do it justice. It had a great view of the vineyard and this sweet little door into the front garden. It was super cute. And outside was lit by an old fashion lantern with a candle burning. It was sweet. The girl gave us directions to a fancy restaurant just down the vineyard, called Le Caveau. The path was also like by candlelight. We both ordered a glass of wine and the tuna. I just looked up the website to see what kind of wine we ordered and I realized....we went back the next day and I bought the wrong kind!!! I am pretty certain I had the Seyval Blanc with dinner and I bought the Vidal Blanc to bring home thinking it was the one from dinner. Silly. I guess I'll know for certain when I open it next week (my one month anniversary plan). But right now I'm strangely disappointed. Le sigh.

Anyway, dinner was fabulous. We were both stuffed. The next morning we got up and had breakfast at the Inn and sat with an interesting couple from New Jersey doing wine tours for 3 days. We ran into them later in the day and the woman whispered to me, "This is the best winery yet!" Since she had been doing tours for days I could only assume she was right. We only toured 3 wineries, but the one she picked as her favorite...it was fabulous.

On the Friday of our honeymoon we toured:

Domaine de Grand Pré bought by a Swiss Banker in the nineties and completely restored.

Muir Murray Estate Winery owned by an Irish doctor.

And

Gaspereau Vineyards which is owned by Jost Wineries.

It was all fabulous. But I have to admit Gaspereau was my favorite. Just like the lady from New Jersey. When we arrived there we found out there wouldn't be a tour for an hour. So instead we tasted wines. The girl there let me taste all of their whites. Chris just wanted to taste the reds. I wanted to taste everything that Chris tasted. In the end Chris bought two bottles there, a red and a super expensive Chardonnay for me. Yay! He loves me.

After we tried all of the wines at Gaspereau the girl gave us a mini tour. She showed us the steel drums where they aged the wine. And then she took us outside the back of the barn and showed us some of the vineyards. They do a lot of experimenting at this winery. The location, on the sunny side of the hill is a great place to experiment. Which is why they have a chardonnay. Most vineyards in Nova Scotia don't seem to make it. It was interesting and so pretty. Part of the vineyard is int he picture below. The hill behind has the chardonnay grapes. Closer to us are the grapes for their L'Acadie wine. (Which everyone vineyard we went to bragged about but wasn't really to my taste. Ick.)

Joggins

On the second day of our 4 day honeymoon Chris and I went to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia. The building is eco-friendly and super neat.They have little display holes in the floor. And they had a café with yummy seafood chowder. We registered for the 2 hour tour on the beach. It was guided by a guy who is a grad student studying Paleontology in Halifax.

Everyone on the guided tour had to wear hard hats on the beach in case of `rock fall`. Chris quickly informed the guide about his little encounter with rock fall this spring. You know, the one where he lost the tip of his finger. Ha. The guide did that thing where you`re so grossed out you do a full body shake. It was funny. And then we walked down the beach and learned about fossils. Mostly tree fossils. And some lizard footprints. No dinosaurs. I would have known that if I had of read the website beforehand, but I did not. Oh well, I had always wanted to go and I had a really good time.

But the seafood chowder at the café...yummy!!!

Entertainment

I was reading a new blog ROSHDAWG, sister of my favorite wedding blogger and today's post suggested going to your oldest email account and reading some of the emails you sent years ago. She suggests that this will be hilarious. I tried this but I must have deleted all the old ones because the account I've had since I was 18 only goes back to 2007. And was mostly about getting Jenn to fix my resumé. But I found a note to my grandmother about how I bought a new skirt...ohhh, fancy. I wonder if it was the one Chris bought me because I 'lost' my wallet?

Anyway, the email to my grandmother was attached to a forward from her. I thought I'd let everyone have a laugh and roll their eyes. Enjoy!

I urgently needed a few days off work,
But, I knew the Boss would not allow me to take leave.
I thought that maybe if I acted "Crazy" then he would tell me to take a few days off.
So, I hung upside-down on the ceiling and made funny noises.
My co-worker (who's blonde) asked me what I was doing.
I told her that I was pretending to be a light bulb so that the Boss might think I was "Crazy" and give me a few days off.
A few minutes later the Boss came into the office and asked,
"What in the name of good GOD are you doing?"
I told him I was a light bulb.
He said, "You are clearly stressed out."
Go home and recuperate for a couple of days."
I jumped down and walked out of the office...
When my co-worker (the blonde) followed me, the Boss asked her,
"And where do you think you're going?!"

(You're gonna love this....)




She said, "I'm going home too. I can't work in the dark.

Two Weeks Married

Chris and I have been married for 2 weeks and 1 day. Fun. On this day at this time 2 weeks ago we were packing up to leave the presidential suite at the Chateau Saint John. So pretty!!! And then we went back to my parents house for brunch and present unwrapping. So fun!!! Shortly after we began our excellent adventure and honeymoon!!! Starting with Treego!

What a weird thing to do on your first full day of marriage. But we had fun!!! And I barely whined at all. :) But I was too tired afterward to go anywhere fancy for dinner. So we drove 3 minutes to the Superstore and picked up sushi.

Back at work all I can think about it how much fun I was having 2 weeks ago. But it feels more like some distant past. I need another vacation.