copia

for b's birthday we headed out to copia to visit the fancy wine and cheese. it was a beautiful day and there were lots of good photo opps. the giant vase above was made out of thousands of bottlecaps. i tried to get an upclose picture so you could see the bottlecaps but i don't know if it was that successful.






even the copia shop was fun for the senses.



there were also some visitors from chicago...

and i even snuck in some pictures in the no photos allowed room. (i actually just forgot about the sign when i took the picture but i didn't have the heart to erase it!)

we also visited artesa. the architecture of the building was breathtaking. built with the surrounding landscaping in mind it reminded me of a pyramid covered with native grasses.

after the excitment in napa we headed to house of waffles for some chicken and waffle goodness. we stuffed ourselves silly and even contemplated a sock-it-to-me cake but the waffles and chicken took up too much stomach space to allow for dessert.