SO. Joanie, a friend I've had since my first job out of college (she interviewed me for that job, actually!), turned 40 LAST MONTH. Joanie and I have been around the block together, LET ME TELL YOU...but she's a wife and a mother of two now, so gone are the days of bubble wrap clothing and accepting rides from strangers and instead of finding ourselves a bit too over-served and nearly getting kicked out of the Seattle Westin, we celebrated her birthday all classy-like and went wine tasting with some homies.
Marci, who is also all grown up with two kids now, was kind enough to shuttle us around minivan-style while we bounced around Livermore on a perfect July day, had lunch outside next to a Corvette meet-up (when I saw the 15 or so Corvettes in the parking lot I suggested we take bets on how many Tommy Bahama shirts would be inside the restaurant...sadly, there was only ONE), drank a lot of wine, flirted with a winemaker or two and found Joanie a new local babysitter (one of the winemakers' nieces, I believe).
Here we all are, accidentally standing in height order:
I was wearing flats and Walkera was wearing some pretty significant wedges, so she got to be the tall one for the day.
The last winery we went to had a big grassy yard and we were a "few" glasses of wine into our day so we abandoned our things and took like 50 photos. There are many that I can't show you because I value the friendship of the subjects, but here are some safe ones.
Purses and wine, relaxing on the lawn:
Ladies, HOLLA!
Marci looking all "I'm a casually sexy farm girl."
A TRACTOR!!!! This was WAS going to be my 2011 Christmas card photo but I took an even better one at my birthday party a couple weeks ago:
Marci, petite flower that she is, could actually ride the mini tractors:
Thumbs up!
(And if Walkera ever DOES send me those pictures she's holding hostage, I might have to show you how glamorous I look in photos of me tap dancing! On a stage, even!)
We eventually piled back into the swagger wagon and headed back to Joanie's to play with her kids and eat her birthday cake:
Hello, Handsome!
I seem to have a lot of pictures of Walkera laughing. I'm glad she does it so often.
Happy birthday, Joan. I always enjoy celebrating milestone birthdays with you.
xoxo.
What a Great Day! Favorite people and wine too. Thanks for sharing the day with me. Here's to the next 10 years. XO
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