Jennifer's Birthday/Winery Trip

It seems like everyone gets busier every year, but somehow most of us managed to meet up one random weekend! It started with Jen asking if I could come down for her birthday weekend. I happened to be free, so I told her Craig and I would plan on coming. Then she asked Kayla, Nikki, and Elise, and they all ended up being free, too!! (Kate and Cassie ended up coming, too!!) I still can't believe that we all ended up being there with such last minute plans!

 Craig and I followed Elise and Cassie down to Carbondale Saturday morning and got there around 1pm. We all gathered our things and headed out!

First stop: Blue Sky Winery!

Blue Sky was so much fun! It is beautiful outside, but it was pretty chilly, so we snagged a table inside. It was pretty calm, we all split a few pitchers of their white sangria (DELISH!) and chatted for an hour or two. Nikki spilled her wine, which was super funny - it seemed like it happened in slow motion, but also ended up being a nice ice breaker with the table behind us! They ended up giving us some of their extra bread and oil when they left and joked around with us about cutting her off. Kayla was also a life saver and brought us food! We had cheese, pita chips and hummus, chips and salsa, etc. She's the best and always comes through with the food situations. :)

Stop #2: Owl Creek Winery

Owl Creek was pretty short and sweet. We got there about 30 minutes before they closed, so they couldn't sell us glasses of wine. They could sell us tastings and closed bottles of wine, so we did both! We snuck out to their back deck and secretly opened the bottle of wine that we bought and all shared it before we headed out. shh :)

Stop #3: Rustle Hill Winery

 Rustle Hill  is so cute outside! They have tons of outdoor seating in kind of an amphitheater feel. Again, we stayed inside for the most part because it was nippy out there! Here are some more pictures...

The only picture of us at the wineries - whoops!

FAVORITE PICTURE OF THE TRIP!! (thank. you. instagram.)

 After the wineries, we headed back to Jen's to regroup. We all freshened up, got some food in us, and started preparing for the night! It was such a long day. Here are a few more pictures before we headed out...

The Birthday girl and me :) Love this one!

Silly...

I have to say, I'm a fan of this one too :)

The trip was so fun and I am SO glad I went! It may not have been such a good choice to eat and drink the weekend away when the 1/2 marathon was the following weekend, but it was worth it :) I miss those girls and really wish there was more free time in life. Sigh.