• Wine

    Altamont Winery

    Saturday was a lovely day. Chris and I took advantage of the warm weather (almost 90 degrees!) and my recent Groupon purchase to finally check out the Altamont Winery! Did you know Albany county has a vineyard? Neither did I until not too long ago. I called ahead to set up a tour (they do two tours a day on Saturday and Sunday) followed by a tasting. They have a cute tasting room where you can purchase wine and other gifts. We looked around while we waited for the tour. They took us out to the vineyard to show us their grape vines and explain how the grapes grow and…

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    Things I’m Loving Right Now

    I’ve seen this kind of post on a few of my favorite blogs lately so I decided to do one too! My New Apartment I haven’t mentioned it on my blog yet, but at the beginning of this month I moved into a new place! Its close to everything and only a 10 minute commute to work versus the 30 minutes I was commuting before. And its nice and spacious! Trader Joe’s Lavender Salt Scrub    I picked this up randomly at my last trip to Trader Joe’s while in Pittsburgh. Thank heavens I did because it is amazing! It is made of all natural ingredients and does wonders for…

  • Cooking,  Food,  Running,  Training,  Wine

    Liquid Sunshine

    Last night I met up with my cousin Liz! She recently just returned from a vacation in France so I wanted to hang out with her so we could catch up! I brought a bottle of Cascade Mountain Harvest Rose, a local wine, over to her apartment and we each had a couple glasses before going to dinner. The wine was very fruity and delicious. 🙂 We eventually made it to the Wine Bar on Lark. We decided on another bottle of wine…a sparking white called Moscato D’Asti. When we ordered it, the waitress described it as tasting like “liquid sunshine“. How could we not try that? 😉 It smelled…