At the beginning of 2020 (how was that two years ago already?!) I packed my bags and headed up to California with family and friends for a week-long trip, full of wine tastings and memories that still feel like yesterday. ♡

Soon before the world shut down we lived every moment to its fullest, enjoying quality time with each other and some wine. Starting in Sacramento, we all filed in a van and made our way to Amador for the weekend, first stopping through Tahoe for a day...we were on a mission to see snow and when we did we made the most of it, even stopping in someone's backyard to take some pictures! 

There's a wine weekend every year in Amador, CA called Behind the Cellar Door, and if you ever have a chance to go I'd highly recommend! Once you pre-purchase a wine passport online you can visit all of the wineries in the area that include wine and food tastings, not to mention an experience that's just beyond. Since things have changed a bit since 2020, there are more limits now including a maximum of 4 wineries a day. I won't say how many we visited in one day during our trip...but it was at least twice that, haha. You'll be surprised what just a few wine tastings can do! 

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While I hope to make it back one day, because things have changed some and we're all over on the opposite coast, this year we're reconnecting and spending a week in North Carolina instead to explore and get in some wine tastings! 

The trip in 2020 was what we all needed to get away from everyday life for a bit and enjoy the simple things, including each others company. The wineries were the best time, but it was also the evenings spent gathered around a table playing card games and telling drunk stories and being beat in foosball by people more than twice our age (in our defense, they cheated) that make the memories of this time so close to my heart. 

If you ever have a chance to drop everything for a week, or even just a weekend, and spend time away with people, take it. We take this life and our experiences for granted every single day. Often lost in the hustle of just getting by, before we know it life will have passed us by. And it's not the day in day out of clocking in for work that we'll remember fondly, but the times that we just enjoyed life and the people around us. This blog is called a happy blur for a reason, because that's how I want to remember life. Of course not every moment is happy, and there are hard things, and there is the mundane that I too find myself in more often than I should. But it's the memories that just feel like a happy blur that make this life worth it. I know I'll look back and be thankful for times like this. I already do.