Memorial Day Weekend?

[Claire]

It's coming up....do you have any plans??

We usually go to my dad's on the coast and watch him get drunk and pick on my step-mom, my kids and me, until he suggests we all don our suits and get in the hot tub where he then calls me fat and tells me I shouldn't have had so many damn kids.

I know, I know. You're all jealous and wish you could join us......believe me, the prospect of doing it again was a little overwhelming, so I decided NOT to do it (ever again, I hope) and we planned a No Kids weekend instead.

Friday night, I'm going to an Australian red wine tasting ($10 for a flight of 5, and $6 for 2 premium pours...I'm going straight to the pours) during happy hour with my best friends from high school....one just moved back into town, so we're celebrating his arrival. Cannot wait to see everyone. We're doing the tasting, then staggering four blocks to this yummy place for tapas and to sober up.

Then Kelly and I are dropping the kids early Saturday morning with my in-laws who live smack DAB in the middle of the Willamette Valley Wine territory (about 45 minutes from us) in McMinnville.

Then Kelly and I are spending the day driving from winery to winery to taste and buy and taste and buy. At the end of the day, we're heading back to McMinnville to stay at the Hotel Oregon. http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?...ion%20Homepage I juuuuust found out on Monday that one of my favorite local bands Dirty Martini (4 women songwriters who occasionally get together and perform--I've followed 2 of them for eons!) is going to be playing there that night....free!! I'm so excited!! What luck! Kelly likes them too.....but only because two of them are extremely hot and fun to look at.

We have Sunday brunch plans with Kelly's brother and his wife, then it's a few more wineries, dinner with the in-laws, and then we'll stay at their house and go home on Monday.

What about you???