Goodbye

Well, we said goodbye to Cory earlier this week. He is off on deployment for several months aboard the USS Ronald Reagan. It has not been a terribly fun week, but before he left we got to spend a lot of time together. For Cory's birthday I had bought him a wine blending kit from one of our favorite wineries here in California. We broke it out the night before he left and had a great time coming up with all sorts of blends. It was quite a bit of wine to drink, but I guess that just made the experience all the more fun.

The kit came with special placemats were you kept track of your blends. You had to rate each of them on aroma, flavor and mouth-feel.

Cory was getting very into it.

That's not really how it's supposed to be done...

We had so much fun with it and came up with some really good wines. We entered our personal favorite into a contest that the winery is holding...the winner gets a magnum of their own blend! We'll see what happens!

Cory actually has his own blog now highlighting the adventures of Lars the Gnome (Cory's little friend he carries everywhere with him). He'll be updating it from around the world...watch for that! The link to his site is on the top left of this page...