Marmee's Birfday

Here we are in Calistoga getting ready for our bike ride to St. Helena.

I am standing in front of one of the many cute houses there in Calistoga

Same pix from far away for perspective

Daddio folding up the bike rack before we start our trek

Here is my favorite house on the Silverado Trail, notice the wrap around porch and lots of fantastic windows looking out on the vineyard.

We just had to stop and take pictures of the rows of lupine in between the vines, it smelled like Heaven.

Here is another shot of that house

This is a castle up in the hills as seen from the Silverado Trail, Aileen was telling us that you can tour it. Some wealthy guy actually had stones and artisans brought over from Italy to build it. It really does look just like the castles we just saw in Italy in Feb where our ancestors are from. Pretty cool.

This is where we ate lunch in St.Helena

A cool truck we saw on our way back up to Calistoga on Hwy 29

This was after our first course, Daddio had the chopped salad, I had the beet salad and we also had some fried Calamari and mozzarella with bruschetta

Daddio's  scallops

My gnocchi, yum!

I would definitely come back

The following 4 pix are of cute houses in Calistoga

After our 20 mile ride.

I was pretty tired, but it was a beautiful ride and a fun birthday I will not forget.

 Thank you to my girls for the wonderful Cuisinart Food Processor and the poem that made me cry, I love you guys!!!!!!!!!