My weekend with Andrae at the Red Lobster

I believe my love of the fermented grape is well-documented on this website, so it is with Great! and Fervent! Excitement! that I share with you my weekend plans: touring the North Sound wineries for the Red Wine & Chocolate weekend. Red wine AND chocolate. It's like my own personal heaven.

No, it gets better. I will be red wining and chocolating not with my responsible and un-lush-like husband, but with my lovely pro-inebriation girlfriends, one of whom has very personal connections to a certain winery (where I hear we will receive VIP backstage treatment!) I am crazy excited. We are totally going to stay up late, drink too much and talk about boys.

I've been plotting this trip since last February, when the aforementioned Friend With Connections told me about it. It was too late for me to go last year, but I had no intention of letting it pass me by this year. So here I am, sending obnoxious reminder emails, downloading ferry schedules, purchasing tickets and telling everyone to show up at 8 at my house Saturday morning. Which is early, yes, but the first winery opens at TEN. We only have SO MUCH TIME.

(Phillip, not terribly pleased at the prospect of a Maggie-less weekend at home, decided to fly out to the East Coast to visit a friend. After working 42 hours last weekend (FORTY-TWO) (WEEKEND) I do believe he's entitled to some R&R.)

While I have quite a lot of experience with wine in general, I am less familiar with, shall we say, good wine. My list of reasons not to drink a particular wine include: it has been sitting uncorked on my counter since Christmas, it's pink, it has thingies floating in it. That's pretty much it. So I'm a little worried about my Wine Cred this weekend. I need to watch Sideways again and read up on my Robert Parker. All this, even though my new favorite wine comes in a box and can be purchased at Target.

But you know what I need to do before Saturday morning? Watch Project Runway. I couldn't stay up last night (because I am old and boring and this does not bode well for the wine weekend) and now I am censoring my internet reading because what if someone mentions who got auffed? Horrors! DO NOT TELL ME WHO GOT AUFFED. (And I can't even Google 'auffed' to show you that I so did not make that up, because WHAT IF I STUMBLE UPON THE ANSWER?!)

I hope it was Santino. Although I would miss his Timpressions.

(OH FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY. I googled 'timpression' and NOW I KNOW. DAMMIT. SEE WHAT I DO FOR YOU, INTERNET?)

(But I pretty much knew the answer anyway.)

(REALLY, people! Watch this show! Then we'll do lunch! At Red Lobster!)

So anyway. Wine! Chocolate! Friends! It is a much-needed girls-only weekend... and there WILL be photographic evidence, oh yes.

Comments

[yoonie]

Oooh! Red wine and chocolate. I wish I could join you for the weekend. It sounds divine.

And last night's PR was AWESOME. I was sitting at the edge of seat throughout the whole episode. And yes, I totally know that auffed is word (anyone who is a true PR fan would know).

Have fun watching. Auf weidersehen!