If anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving

I sit here on a Tuesday night with the eagerness and anticipation usually reserved for the weekend. That's because tomorrow (Wednesday) is my last day of work for the week and on Thursday, Kristin and Greaux are flying in for a girls weekend in wine country. YAY!

They each fly in on Thursday afternoon/evening. Friday morning we are booked for spa treatments at Kinara, where we will beautify and rejuvenate before driving 130 miles north to Santa Ynez. Have you seen Sideways? Because that's where the movie was filmed. Let me know if you'd like a token Sideways Map for posterity. Our trip will be just like that movie minus the angst, bitterness, self-loathing, and meaningless drunken sex. I hope.

Saturday we will enjoy a five hour Back Country Wine Tour in the comforts - or something - of a guided open air Jeep. Saturday night we will probably hit the cheesy casino five miles down the road and hit on innocent young fraternity boys from UCSB. I'm going to bring my 10-year old college ID in the hopes that I qualify for a student discount at the slots. Just hope they don't ask for backup.

Sunday we drive back and I drop my NYC friends at the airport. Prepare for a long blog and lots of pictures to be posted next week. I can't promise, though, that I'll remember where they were taken.