Drunk in the Woods

No really, everyone was, not just us.

So Wine in the Woods is basically the biggest wine tasting ever. Invite a few thousand of your closest acquaintances to the woods, bring food and wine for everyone, play some music, and that's basically what you've got.

( http://www.wineinthewoods.com/ )

I easily go to a wine tasting a week, not some hoighty-toighty affair, but just where there are new wines, and ya taste them. I like them, but they are usually pretty heavy pourers, so it's a good evening all around.

This place was better (not many heavy pours, but a lot of little ones). There were dozens of different wineries. All Maryland wine, but goodness, I didn't realize the variety that was at our disposal.

So anyway, this was our first time there, so we took a couple of the parents, packed a picnic basket with every type of cheese we could nab, and headed off.

We didn't want to arrive right when it started, so we got there a couple hours in. That might have been a mistake (but i haven't been there previously, so no idea how early it gets crowded).

But we got our tiny taster glasses, our wristbands, and a map of the grounds.

Lines, lines everywhere.

And we kept seeing people wearing the most wonderful wine lanyards, so we headed there first.

They were great, until you got the least bit tipsy. They weren't so great when you are trying to fill them, or when they were full.

Anyway, we wandered around for a while (waiting in lines mostly, honestly, there needs to be a faster way of getting the wine into everyone's glasses).

We found a great sangria that I'm pretty sure everyone there was in to.

But after a while our feet were barking, so we swung by the butterflied potatoes cart, and headed back to our picnic blanket to grab some our noshes.

And after that we started right back at it.

 They really push it on you (not that we minded).

But man, what with the heat, wine, and good food, even the beautiful scenery and music wasn't enough to keep us awake. So we packed up and headed home. Thank you to our wonderful parents who put up with all our antics that day.

And then on to our local wine tasting that evening :)