Apples, Wine, and the Duncans

The weekend in review:

Friday night Nick took me to Osaka for dinner. Tasty as always; minus the fact that the first round of chicken wasn't fully cooked. I had my first taste of sake. That stuff tastes pretty potent. I don't really recall what we did after Osaka... I think we just hung out.

Saturday we got up early and drove to Hermann! On the way my car started to act up again. It's getting rather frustrating. Currently it is in the shop and they aren't exactly sure what is going wrong with the throttle positioning sensor... wiring perhaps?

Anyway, Chris and Sara Duncan picked us up in Hermann. We took some windy back roads to Marthasville to go apple picking. Sara took tons of pictures... I didn't because I am the moron who forgot her camera in the broken car. Any who we picked tons of apples... There were some goats for petting, cider to be drunk, and a kid who got slapped across the face for hocking a loogie into the goat's water.

Wineries! I love Hermann wine. We first stopped at Adam Puchta's winery and had ourselves a bottle of Vidal Blanc. I personally go for a sweeter Puchta wine but, the company I was keeping preferred a more dry wine. Next we drove out to Bias. Apparently Bias was the place to be that weekend. Tons of people had come out for their chili cook off. Sara and I even sung karaoke, "Build Me up Buttercup".

After all of the winery excitement we checked into our "bed and breakfast". In all reality it was more like a cheap motel. For shame, we were really looking forward to something nicer. We then walked to the Concert Hall and played a couple rounds of Cranium (yes, I realize Cranium at a bar is rather... well you fill that blank in however you like). I was the big looser. I lost with Nick as my partner and then with Sara. El Ranchito was our dinner stop. It was ok. The salsa was the best part about the place. Best part about our Bed and Breakfast was hands down the breakfast. Other than that the place was pretty bad.

On Sunday Nick and I drove back to Columbia. We stopped at the humane society and adopted a 6 month old black and white spaniel mix that we named Toby. He's really a good dog and has already learned how to sit in one day. Not to mention he is well on his way to being potty trained. I'll be sure to post pictures of him as soon as I get my car out of the shop. :)