This past Saturday was amazing! We woke up to a little bit of snow on the ground. Not a lot, but enough to have fun in. Josh and I were planning on taking Bailey for a short walk, so we got all wrapped up and put her shoes and hoodie on. She was SO excited, we decided to stay out for a while and play with her. We ran and threw snow with her. She absolutely LOVED it! We didn't have the heart to just go on a quick walk and we had a lot of fun with her. We ended up playing for at least an hour. On our way back home we saw a little girl and her dad. She was really excited and wanted to pet Bailey. Bailey LOVES kids. Well, this kid had a fluffy panda hat on. Apparently, Bailey doesn't like fluffy panda hats. She barked at the kid. Needless to say, she didn't get to play with the little girl any. :-/ On the bright side, I actually took the camera with us this time so I have some pictures! YAY!
We were planning on going to St. Michael's because we had a Living Social voucher to a winery we've been wanting to visit. We almost put it off again, but it expires this weekend and we were worried we wouldn't make it since we have visitors coming. I'm really glad we decided to go! The roads were completely fine even though it snowed through the night. We went to the winery first. This one was different than some of the other wineries we've been to up here. They have a couple vineyards, but they're not at the same place they do tastings. It didn't bother me though, this time of year, you wouldn't see anything but a bunch of dormant vines anyway. A super sweet older man helped Josh and I. He was very knowledgeable about the wines and told us little stories about how they got their names and everything. I like that so much better than when they just let you taste them and they don't know anything about them. Anyway, our voucher covered 10 samples each and a free bottle of wine. We were strategic and made sure between the two of us, we would be able to taste all the wines. Well, the man just let us both taste them all anyway. Haha. Josh's favorite wine wasn't included on the list that we could choose from, so he bought that bottle and I chose my favorite from the list.
The last time we were in St. Michael's (for our anniversary last year, when we locked the keys in the house along with Josh's ID and weren't able to do the tasting), we noticed that there was also a microbrewery. We decided to stop in after the winery. It's also a very small business and their beers are sold mostly in restaurants in St. Michael's. They had 3 different beers. An amber (which I typically like), a porter and an IPA (I usually don't like either of these). I liked them all! The guy who was working talked to us about the beers and homebrewing, then he gave us a tour. We ended up staying for a while and just talking to him. He reminded me a lot of a good friend from home :-). There were a group of people in there from Norway. They were in town for business and we talked to them for a little bit. We were starting to get hungry and the guy at the microbrewery told us about a really good brick oven pizza restaurant in town. It sounded really good, but we had a Groupon to use for Harris Crab House which is on the way home. We decided to go to the crab house. Josh got crab stuffed flounder and I just got a broiled flounder. All our food was SO good. The hushpuppies and potato salad were amazing!
I'm really glad we decided to go last weekend instead of putting it off! We both had a really great time and it was a nice change of pace. It was probably one of the best dates we've had in a while. We try to go on at least 2 dates a month, but a lot of times it's just dinner or something quick. It was really nice to get away together for more than just a couple hours. Also, I am in love with St. Michael's. It's the kind of place I can see myself retiring in. It's a little town on the bay. It's just so cute! Definitely not a place we could live now. It's expensive and not a great place for work...but when I'm retired and work doesn't matter, it would be great!
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