{"id":53545,"date":"2017-10-24T08:06:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T15:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=53545"},"modified":"2017-10-23T08:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:06:56","slug":"wine-country-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=53545","title":{"rendered":"Wine Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a good weekend! Logan turned 19 months old and was such a goofy, cute, fun little boy all weekend. He decided he wanted to learn how to jump. I have some pretty hilarious and adorable videos of him trying to learn how to jump up and down. He’s not quite coordinated yet.<\/p>\n

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Also this weekend, Michael and I got to get away for a little but on Sunday. Logan got some quality time with the grandparents and we got to have adult time with friends! Win-win! I went swimming and then we met up with some friends and drove down to Dundee, Oregon together.<\/p>\n

It was the Sokol Blosser<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>wine club pick up party over the weekend and we went with friends who are also members. First, we stopped for lunch at a place they recommended. It was called the Babica Hen Cafe<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I ordered the Blue Cheese and Bacon Salad. It came with grilled chicken and avocado and an egg on top. The salad was really delicious and fresh. It was also a ton of food. I only ended up eating about 80% of it. And…despite the low carb diet, I did have the bread that came with it. It was warm and freshly baked with melty butter…and hard to pass up. Lunch was delicious.<\/p>\n

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I kind of got talked into having a raspberry mimosa, which was also delicious.<\/p>\n

Michael got the smoked salmon eggs benedict, Charla got the taco salad (looked delicious) and Ben got this crazy fried chicken and waffle dish I had to share a photo of!<\/p>\n

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It looked like there was a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of it, but it was mashed potatoes. With caramel syrup and coconut flakes on top. We all had a bite. It was super weird! But the presentation was great.<\/p>\n

After lunch we arrived at the winery for the private members-only party. We weren’t sure if there was going to be “real” food there, hence the reason we stopped for lunch. But we arrived and there was a pretty decent spread of stuff. So next time, we’ll just bring a picnic lunch and supplement with the cheese, meat and olives they provided. They also had free coffee from a local place. Sadly, I forgot to get a sample of it.<\/p>\n

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We checked in and got a taste of their sparkling rose wine, which was really light and refreshing.<\/p>\n

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The place was packed but we found a cozy spot on the downstairs patio outside. The weekend had been super stormy, rainy and wet but we lucked out on Sunday to nice, warm and sunny weather instead.<\/p>\n

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It was kind of the perfect afternoon. We were all able to relax kid-free and have adult conversations. Way different than the last time we were there. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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The wines were all so good. They were very generous with the pours. We spent a few hours tasting and hanging out.<\/p>\n

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Around 3:30 the place was starting to thin out. We were able to get a table inside and see the musician who was hired for the event. His name was Dante Zapata<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and he was so good! I posted two videos<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on my instagram<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>if yo are interested. When we joined the party, he was playing some old R&B songs acoustically. Loved the spin on some old favorites!<\/p>\n

Charla suggested we stop at Argyle <\/a><\/strong><\/span>on the way home. She’s raved about their wines a few times.<\/p>\n

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It was a really cool, modern tasting room. There was tons of space both inside and outside, there was cool art inside and a private room in the back, plus outdoor covered areas and an area for bocci ball. It would be a fun place to go back to when we had more time.<\/p>\n

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Three of us shared some tastings. The wines were really excellent: smooth and rich and full of noticeable flavors that were easy to identify. It’s a shame their wine was too rich for our blood! I would have taken a bottle home but the cheapest one on the menu was $45! Ooof, little too much for my budget.<\/p>\n

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After that it was home to our little dude, who’d had a fantastic day with grandma and grandpa. Then Michael and I finished the season finale of Game of Thrones (holy crap that was crazy and intense!!!). What a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a good weekend! Logan turned 19 months old and was such a goofy, cute, fun little boy all weekend. He decided he wanted to learn how to jump. I have some pretty hilarious and adorable videos of him trying to learn how to jump up and down. He’s not quite coordinated yet. Also this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,107,1949,159,160,195,6297,2806,5170,219,230,267,2932,303,304,305,1602],"tags":[9629,9631,1940,8667,9632,7621,960,9587,9630,8735,8764,8765],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53545"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53571,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53545\/revisions\/53571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}