Continued from Napa Day 1.

This is how she sleeps in her crib, a pack and play provided by the hotel. Baby woke up at 3am on the dot. We stayed up with her about an hour and a half before it’s nap time again. Two hours of napping later, she woke up again. We needed some more sleep, so we dump the baby off with the eager grandparents. Hours later, it’s 10am, and we are finally going to get some wine in our system.

In the car, heading out to some wineries. The baby needs to be entertained with youtube baby videos. Such high maintenance.

I wonder what they are doing with the vines.

The weather isn’t great, but it’s acceptable. As long as it just kind of drizzles, I am ok with it.

On Silverado Trail, lots of wineries on this road. I had imagined Silverado Trail to be a much smaller road, instead it’s a wide two lane highway with wide shoulders.

Apparently mustard flowers are good for the vineyards.

Reached our first winery for the day. They specialize in sparkling wine over here. Nothing but bubblies.

DH and BH heading in first while RL and I stayed in The Dick to change a poopy diaper. This is already poop #2 for today, and it’s not even noon yet.

Happy now that she’s pooped…the baby, not RL. Isnt’t she the cutest thing ever posing next to her purple dirty diaper trash bag.

Tasting room, and you actually order from a server.

Nice view from the tasting room.

Pretty good stuff, we ended up buying a bottle. Now we just need to transport it back to Austin without breaking it.

Moss!!! I love moss!!

There’s an art gallery in the adjacent building to the tasting room. Wine is such a frou frou thing, there are several wineries here that have art galleries attached to them, not that I don’t like wine or art.

I guess this is where they age all of their sparking wine.

Back in The Dick, heading to our next winery.

 Here. This place came highly recommended by both Yelp and friends.

Thanks to the rain and the time of the year, not too many people here. This is the beauty of traveling in the low season.

 The tasting room and deli.

 Tasting area.

We stocked up on lunch items here at the deli, tasted some wine, and got a bottle to drink with our lunch. Usually this is a great winery to picnic outside on their tables, but due to the rain, they’ve opened up the underground wine cellar today for dining.

Not a bad tradeoff to dodge the wet weather outside.

This is actually what I looked forward to the most on this trip—wine, food, and family. It helps that PL has been a superb travel baby so far, taking good naps either in her car seat or in her baby carrier.

Finished our delicious leisure lunch and came back out above ground. This is where we would have had our outdoor picnic lunch if the weather was dry. Perhaps next time…

Look, the Napa Wine Train passes by as we get ready to get back in The Dick. It’s almost mid afternoon, we are tired due to being up on and off since 3am. It’s time to head back to the hotel and rest, for everyone.

Caught up to the train.

There’s a certain beauty to the rainy foggy weather.

On our way back to our hotel we passed by Yountville. We made a slight detour so that I can take a photo of this unassuming building. This unassuming building is The French Laundry, a Michelin 3 star restaurant and for a while named the best restaurant in the world. Thought about making a reservation here for dinner(gotta make that reservation months ahead of time), but couldn’t quite stomach the $600 plus(for two) dinner.

No worries, Thomas Keller, the chef of The French Laundry also runs Bouchon, a cheaper priced restaurant, and also an even cheaper Bouchon Bakery close by The French Laundry. The cheapest option for us today.

Eclair filled with chocolate cream with a gold leaf on one end. Was expecting custard filling though. Perhaps blasphemous to say, but we got multiple pastries and macaroons at Bouchon Bakery and weren’t all that impressed. Maybe that’s what we get for not springing for a reservation at The French Laundry.

Exhausted, took most of the afternoon to nap after our two winery visit earlier today.

Side note: I thought that I would have plenty of time to blog while traveling with the baby, since she sleeps so much. It’s been the opposite so far. I’ve been so sleep deprived that any free time I have, I try to nap. In fact, I am blogging this back in Austin at the moment since I was only able to blog 1 out of the 5 days of traveling while on the go.

Again, baby is supposed to fall asleep at 6pm here in Western Time, so another early lunch. We tried to stretch it as much as we can, but it still means we head out for dinner early at around 6pm.

Empty restaurant due to low season. Love it. That or they all know something terrible about this place that we don’t know about…

‘Merica, Fuck Yeah!

Super cute, but getting fussy from being overtired. Someone is always having to constantly hold her and walk around with her. High Main!

Roast chicken, yes please.

Yum! We’ve had nothing but delicious food here in Napa valley(other than slightly disappointing Bouchon Bakery).

Tomorrow, we head back into San Francisco. In retrospect, perhaps we should have stayed an extra day here in Napa so we didn’t feel so rushed and could visit a few more wineries. There’s always next time.

To be continued at SF Day 1 Part 1.