Well that would be by hot air balloon of course. Yep, last night Jonathan told me we had to be up at 5am for a "surprise." I have to confess that those types of conversations do start the mind wandering a little but after a very early start we were winging our way to the beautiful Chandon winery (apparently they are not called vineyards over here) to set sail (or should that be balloon)? Now, I have never been on a hot air balloon before but it was incredible! You don't feel like you are flying at all and we just glided over the valley often at a height of 600ft (which I think puts our 2,000 feet high hike into perspective). The balloon ride was followed by a champagne breakfast (aka a plate full of breakfast potatoes for me) and we are now sourcing buckets of coffee to help with the old jetlag/early start combo.
The balloon company is here:
http://napavalleyballoons.com
We also went to Ubuntu last night, which was, quite frankly, one of the nicest meals that I have ever eaten but more on that after our tasting menu there on Thursday. Seriously, Napa: awesome.
Until the next post, (a sleepy) AD xxx
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