Apple Fest and Winery

The day started at a much more reasonable hour this time, though still too early.  A and I met up at 7:15 outside of our apts.  We took the bus to the train, which took us to the station where we could meet up with our bus to the winery.

We stopped off at a temple first.  It was in the middle of nowhere and was located about halfway up the mountain.  As you can see, it was a beautiful day.

 No clue what these guys were doing... but they were cool.

 It was SUCH a beautiful day.

 Not a bad view.

 Me at the main temple grounds.

 The ceilings are so pretty!

 LOOK AT THE TREES!!!

 A dragon!

 More pretty.

 Me and my go-juice.  You know I gotta have my coffee!!

 The apples at the winery.

 My pie... pre-baking.

 The apple brandy barrels.

 Me and my apple brandy.

 Some kind of amazing apple pancake thingy... it was sooo good!!

 That's right - free tastings... loooong lines.

 They had chickens!  A and I were hanging out near here, and it was such a trip to watch the small children totally enthralled with the chickens.  Also reminded me of my chicken ladies.

 I'm pretty sure I babysat chickens that looked like this.

 My apple wine.

 We also had pork, but they had "New York hot dogs" - they put them in the bun, put coleslaw and some potato salad like material on it, with ketchup and mustard.

 See.  Yummy.

 My pie, post baking.  It was delicious.

 They put gold flakes in the apple wine.

 Another banner.

 A and the blueberry wine.

My wine happy face.  LOL - also, yes, this is one of my favorite sweaters.  I bought it forever ago and it still looks great on me.  I call it my Marilyn Monroe sweater.  Hehe - it shows the tats, so I can't really wear it to work. 

So the day at the winery ended at 6pm.  It was 10pm by the time we got home.  I had thought of going out that night and decided to sleep instead.  Honestly, most days when I choose to sleep instead of going out, it ends up really well for me.  I woke up well rested and feeling amazing.  Sunday I spent most of the day watching Netflix and munching.  I made some great pasta that day, too.  Today I found the Papa Johns in town, and enjoyed a garden pizza.  Papa Johns here is goooooood!!!

So this week has nothing much going on.  I have a gov training thing on Saturday, which should NOT be fun cuz I have to be to work at 7am that day.  It's been a few weekends of getting up too blasted early.  Ah well, such is life.  Nothing much else is going on, so I'll sign off now.  Hope you all have a good week, and sending hugs and love from Korea!