Wine Country with the Folks!

The Allees returned to California last week to spend some time in Sonoma Valley (aka wine country)!  My parents rented a house with their friends so Shane and I (as well as their daughter, from San Diego) had the pleasure visiting for the weekend to check out a few wineries and get out of the city and into the sunshine!

Our adorable accomodations

Isn't she radiant? That's my Momma :-)

Dad, constantly making us laugh :-)

Just wanted to show off my new photog skills, thanks to my new camera!
(b-day gift from the Parentals)

Total wine connoisseur now

Cheers!

Sweeney Ridge Graffiti

At the top of Sweeney Ridge there are a number of abandoned buildings which used to be the site of the SF-51C Nike missile control facility.  Project Nike was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system (thank you, wikipedia!).  Now that you've had your history lesson for the day, I will share with you the graffiti that now covers these old buildings...

Arty BART