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Published: July 11th 2012
Part of the glamour of the road trip is going to new places, seeing things you have never seen before, but that's only half. The other half, which is the best half, is seeing new places with your number one road dog. My beloved is a great road warrior to have in the driver's seat...especially when he's taking us to Napa Valley.
We went to Napa today and oh what a great time we had. If only we lived close and didn't have another place to go, we could have stayed for hours. We passed fields of vineyards and wineries and landed at Sattui Winery. This was a recommendation from our Aunt Ann and well, we can trust her word any day. We walked inside as novice and left tipsy. We went to the tasting room where we could each sample wines for ten dollars. How crazy! Now, we aren't wine experts but now our palates have experienced the unique flavors of off dry reisling, muscat, and our favorite, port (of course it was..one bottle was 3 bottles of the reisling). Tracy, our wine expert, kept pouring different types of samples and I was like we still have a full
day. I knock. So we picked a bottle we liked and went to the attached deli and got cheese and sandwiches and picniced outside. They had a picnic area with tables and beautiful flowers. This topped the Romantic Outings with your Spouse chart. Absolutely awesome!
After leaving winery paradise, we went to the BART station(rail) to go to Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39. Pier 39 consisted of a lot of food and retail, but the hit for me was the Wharf where they boiled whole crab on the sidewalk for you to indulge. I would carry a shell cracker in my purse if I lived in the San Francisco area. I looooove crab. And I hate to say, but that was a precursor crab to the roasted crab in garlic butter sauce that we ate that night. Our amazing Aunt Ann, not only amazing for our dinner..she is so cool, took us to a restaurant called Crustecean where they clearly are known for their roasted crab entree. They also have these garlic noodles that are to die for and I am yet trying to simulate what I believe the recipe may be. Aside: Dad, I need a pasta maker.
They give a you a plastic bib, cracker, and that little small crab fork and you go to town. Talk about two cheshire cats smiling ear to ear and focused on getting crabmeat. OOOOH WEE, THAT WAS GOOD EATIN!!!!
Did you read where I mentioned how Aunt Ann is awesome because she topped the night off with her homemade Sangria and an on-point cheesecake when we got back home. And if you know me well you know that any day that I can have sweet wine, picnic with my boo, crab on the sidewalk, another crab soaked in garlic butter, cheesecake, and sangria all in one day, I am one over joyed individual. I'm still coming down....
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Tracy
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My kind of place!
I cannot WAIT for my visit to Napa with my new "partners in wine!" How fitting that your wine expert's name was Tracy...just sayin' :) P.S. How is it that every batch of pictures has one of Danny looking like he's tryong our for ANTM - male edition?