After checking out
Roseville's Downtown Tuesday Nights I was off to
Napa on Thursday to meet with a photographer to take pictures of the last room on our list, the Chairman's Suite. It's the largest suite at
The Meritage Resort and Spa with a kitchen, dining room, family room, bedroom (with four-post bed) and 1.5 baths, not to mention a huge balcony with views of hillside vineyards. Beyond the photography I enjoyed a spectacular dinner at
Siena, highlighted by an Italian Fisherman's Stew, met with a reporter to give her a tour of the property and had a few meetings.
On Friday, after driving from
Napa to
Sacramento in pre-Memorial Day Weekend traffic, I headed to the
Bradley Lodge. Our goal was to get rid of all the pine needles and tree limbs that we have accumulated over the last year or two. After two nights of fires (you can only burn between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. on specific "
Burn Days") and four full trailer loads (10+ cubic yards) to the
dump our piles were gone and we were ready to relax with a few games of
Pinochle, watching the
San Francisco Giants and, of course, hanging out with my brother and nephew who made the trip up while his wife and two youngest kids were in the
Portland and
Seattle. Although everyone enjoyed the comforts of the cabin, my brother and nephew set up a tent in our horse-shoe pits for their own Memorial Day camp-out. In a few weeks we will all be back for the
Lady Antebellum Concert at
Ironstone Vineyards and then a few weeks after that,
Shane Dwight at Ironstone Vineyards with fireworks for a
Fourth of July celebration.
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