Category: Travel

If you are ever in St. Helena, just outside of Napa, be sure and check out Dean & Deluca.  The only thing I make sure and buy every time I’m there is Cock & Bull Ginger Beer.  I’m pretty sure it is the most manly soda a person can drink if that is what you are going for in life (me…not so much…I just love bold tastes).  I’m also a grocery geek, and this is a great place to see how others are using their marketing skills in an upscale environment.  I mean, a person like me isn’t going to buy a $50 flower pot cake, but I’ll bet it is pretty good!  My mom bought me some of their Napa Blend Coffee and a coffee pour over maker, which I’m sure I’ll blog about later (mm, mm it is good).  Yes, I also had some Cock & Bull with pizza that night and oh man is that stuff good!

Let that be a lesson to you, Tyler!  Haha, just kidding, we were playing but here are some pictures that didn’t seem to fit any other post that I had to share.

Christina and I went to UmiGo Racing in Livermore tonight and had a blast. Their go karts get up to 45 MPH so even though it doesn’t look fast on the video, just trust me, it is really fast. I got a chance to do this in Scottsdale a while back, so when I heard they opened up an indoor track in the area, we had to give it a try. Christina is always beating me at racing at the putt-putt places and has the best time doing it, so I thought she would love kicking it up a notch or two. For the record, I did win this time, but I think she had the best time because she didn’t touch the brake and had to be rescued several times (my crazy woman). I also got black flagged because I kept the accelerator to the floor and would brake at the same time, which they didn’t like, otherwise I would have done even better. Thanks to Gary for telling me about it, if you are in town, you should definitely give it a try! I took some pictures with my cell phone camera, which aren’t the best, but I don’t think anyone looks that great wearing the helmets anyway. Oh, and yes my pants were dirty, I was planting some new plants this afternoon with Tyler and didn’t get a chance to change them before my date. 😉