Labor day weekend

We had a wonderful 3-day weekend. It started with sleeping in on Saturday. Then a stroll over the farmers market and some more grocery shopping. In the early afternoon I baked a banana bread and made lemonade. Both was for the neighborhood block party we went to at 5pm. It was really nice to meet some of our neighbors and even better learning that we have a midwife and a post partum nurse in our block (just in case). For the kids some people had organize a bouncy house.

Sunday started again with sleeping in. During the day there wasn't much to do other than laundry. So I played Sims3. I hadn't played it for a long time. It's still fun.
Around 4pm we had a another party to go to. A BBQ at a friends house. We met people we know and new people, a lot of fun and talking and awesome food.

Monday was planned as another day of sleeping in but our alarm clock thought it's Monday so it has to wake us at 6:30. Of course we still manage to fall back to sleep.
Around 10:30 we left for Calistoga. It is a beautiful drive along the vineyards and wineries. There wasn't to much traffic so we arrived after 1.5h. First we had lunch at a very cute family owned Mexican restaurant and I had a pepper stuffed with rice, corn and raisins, topped with a pomegranate sauce. Very yummy.

Some more shopping after lunch and then we went to the Old Faithful Geyser of California. We had to wait around 20 minutes until it started. Here's a short video:



After that we went to the petrified forest. There are a few large trees which became stone because of volcanic activity.

It was great day but very, very hot. I needed a nap right after we arrived at home.