Catch Up (no, not ketchup)

Last weekend Chris and I made our 2nd anual trip to visit our friends Mike and Elaine in Walla Walla. We carefully watched the pass and luckily the spring snowstorms took a break so we could make the 6 1/2 hour drive across the state. The pass was beautiful with all the fresh snow. On the way we stopped and picked up our friend Krista in Yakima. The extra company sure was great!

Mike and Elaine have two fabulous old VW buses. One bus has stared on a few Dave Matthews Band Posters (a little bit of there bus history here on an old post from the Dave Matthews concert in September). This year we wanted to "bait" the poster people with some pictures of the bus in front of a wind farm with the teardrop trailer. Unfortunately the weather was too questionable to bring the trailer, but here are a few samples of what we got:

Chris and Mike en route to the windfarm -

Hey look - it's a greyhound bus!

Windfarm!

The rest of the weekend was spent wine tasting and relaxing with good friends and good food.

Speaking of wine...this past weekend, Chris and I volunteered our time on Saturday to help out at Davenport Cellars. We met Jeff and Sheila on a separate trip to Woodinville and got chatting with them about how they got into the wine business. They attended wine classes at a local community college, then used their retirement money to startup. They've been at it since last summer and are finally beginning to get a tiny return on their investment. They are such friendly people who are following a dream of opening a winery that we offered our help anytime they needed an extra hand. They gave us a call a few weeks ago saying they needed some extra hands to help serve food, clear dishes, etc at the Woodinville Wine Passport weekend (a big open house for all the wineries). Needless to say, Chris and I worked our tails off. We cut about 15 pounds of cheese (haha) and made 360 pulled pork sliders. We had a blast, met some new people and got some good quality people watching time in. It was great to help some people out too. The weekend was a success for them, they had over 600 visitors to their tasting room!

Sunday was spent enjoying some of that 70+ degree weather in the yard. Last year I blogged about putting in flower beds in front of our house. I mentioned that we needed to edge them. Well... it only took us a year to get to it. We edged the front bed and planted some new flowers. A few weeks ago I planted some wildflower seeds on the tiered section and they're coming up so fast you can almost watch them grow!

 The extent of my veggie gardening this year - two tomato plants, a jalepeno plant and some basil.

So that wraps up our two weeks - hope everyone else had a good weekend!