i went to a real live race track, mommy!

yesterday we went wine tasting and then headed to laguna seca. this was a cool day for two main reasons:
1) i've always wanted to go wine tasting because i know nothing about wine, so we did
2) we went to the laguna seca racetrack

well, wine tasting was a blast. it was cool to learn a little more about wine. i texted dave in the middle of the day and told him that our wine tasting adventure was pretty cliche. it was a sunday afternoon, we were driving a cadillac listening to classical music and driving through the rolling california hills to local vineyards to wine taste. he replied saying that all we needed to do was visit the theatre later in the day to make the cliche complete. sadly, there was no time or energy for the theatre afterwards.

here are a couple pics from the wine tasting adventure:

the ride:


the places:

heller estates:




ventana:


garden outside of ventana:


random backseat boredom:


next, was laguna seca. i wanted to check it out for two main reasons (don't you love these lists? someone should digg this!):

1) i love cars
2) laguna seca was an actual course in one of my video games gran turismo and i fake raced on it so many times i really wanted to see the real thing.

here are some of the pics from laguna seca (not to be confused with laguna beach, ladies):

welcome!




this was taken on the bridge you're not supposed to take pictures on:

(i think the idea behind the prohibition of people stopping on the bridge is if you cause one of these huge trailers with cars loaded to crash on the bridge, it will most certainly spill to the track below, which is, as hair dye boxes say on the color chart for Scooter's hair, "not recommended")

in the far left area you can see the sharp, world-renowned corkscrew


you would die on this turn if you weren't paying attention:


fake:


real:




well, the next few days probably won't allow for much more sightseeing as i start babysitting the kiddos tomorrow at 6am! yowzas. the next three days, rinse and repeat with that. but maybe i'll take some fun shots of the kids while we're hanging out. they have the cutest little south african accents. "mum! come eah. the sky is so blou!" maybe that's an exaggeration, but you get the point =)

-m-