Five years!

So last week was our fifth anniversary. We decided to celebrate in a low key fashion. It was wonderful! However, Aaron said that he had a surprise planned for Saturday.

Here were my guesses as to what that surprise might be:

1. A picnic at a park (very typical of us)

2. The Eugene Bite, or the Bite of Eugene, or whatever it's called

3. A drive up the river to hike

That's pretty much all I had come up with. I knew he had arranged for his aunt to come watch Henry for the better part of the day. So I was pretty darn excited.

So when a random lady knocked on our door and Aaron answered it acting like he and this random lady were old friends, I was pretty confused. Who was she, why was she at my house, and why was she acting all BFF with my husband? She said she'd be waiting out front whenever we were ready. So I stuck my head out the door and a big old black Escalade was sitting in my driveway. What the what?

See the pretty car?

So Aaron and I kissed Henry goodbye and hopped in the car with this random woman, which seemed a little sketchy to me, but they assured me that it was the right thing to do. Whatev. I was not about to argue with the woman in the Escalade.

I noticed that Aaron had a little bag of snacks packed. I asked what they were for, and he said we might need sustenance to keep up with our big day of wine tasting! Whoa! My little head almost exploded! That is way fancier than we usually roll.

So we started at King Estate, and ate lunch.

Here's the view outside:

And the view inside:

And us at our super awesome table:

Don't we sort of look like celebrities, a little? We are sooo not this fancy! But it was really fun to pretend!

And our wine tasters - yummy:

And our food! It was fantastic! Aaron had a smoked trout sandwich (which I thought was oh-so-icky but I kept my opinion to myself) and it came with lovely little chippy things:

And I had pasta with peas and mushrooms and goat cheese. Did you hear me? Goat cheese! Excuse me as I drool just a little:

So after lunch we headed to winery/vineyard number 2 (What is the proper term? Is there a difference between a winery and a vineyard? I told you we weren't cool enough to be hanging out at places like that. I bet people could totally tell we were impostors.)

So anyway, stop number two was Sweet Cheeks, and it was just lovely. Here we are:

Then after that it was on to Sylvan Ridge:

And after that Noble Estate:

And last but not least was Sarver Winery:

If we look tired by this last shot, it's because we are. Five hours of wine tasting is hard work. For real.

So then we got dropped off by our personal chauffeur, who was just a riot, btw.

It was like being a famous person. Or a rich person. Or a famous rich person.

So it was a pretty good day. :)