Napa Valley Weekend Trip

What a wonderful time we had in Napa Valley. 

We only wish that the weekend had lasted longer.

I am so glad that we finally made it there.
Napa Valley was on our list of places to visit before we leave Monterey. 

We only have six more months in Monterey 
and then we are headed to South America. 

More on that to come later. 

We experienced for ourselves that Napa Valley can be a kid-friendly tourist town.

We stopped at this cute deli shop that was recommended by the locals and

picked up some sandwiches for our picnic.

We rented bikes from here and stopped at wineries on the way.

AJ loves grapes. In fact, that is his favorite fruit. 

He felt like he was in heaven being surrounded by grape vines.

We believe that he will become a great wine connoisseur when he grows up.

I think he enjoyed the trip as much as us, if not even more.

He found trucks and tractors, his favorite things, at the vineyards

and he enjoyed just watching them. 

Here is a better picture of grape heaven. I believe that these were Cabernet grapes.

Since we kept our trip kid-friendly, we 

only did one wine tasting at the Tedeschi Winery 

and we stopped there for a picnic. 

Picture above of Sterling Vineyards

We also went to the cute town of St. Helena. 

There was wonderful shopping there.

One of my favorites stores I found is called Napa Valley Vintage Home. 

I have more pictures to share about the store, 
but I will save the rest for a later post.

Since dinner at a nice restaurant was out of the question with a toddler, 

we stopped at Dean & DeLuca for some appetizers and took them back to our hotel. 

Once the little guy was in bed, we dined "tapas" style with a really nice bottle of wine.

It was perfect and all we needed. 

There were so many other places we didn't get to visit. 
I wanted to stop everywhere and take pictures, but we were
limited to AJ's nap time and how much he could tolerate.
We hope that next time we visit, we will go sans AJ so that 
we can really get a feel for Napa Valley. 


Regardless, we made it into a family trip and it was great.