napa valley and murder. {got chills yet? me too.}

when we went to napa valley on our trip, not gonna lie---i had a total stereotypical idea of what it would be in my head.  derived from i have no idea.  but this is what i thought it would be:  vineyards everywhere you look, and just a perfect little place of lush and beauty everywhere.  little women with blue hair and to much makeup that were totally cute and then the paris hilton types with their dogs.
it is napa after all.

well, when i'm wrong i say i'm wrong. (name that movie!) i was totally right about the vineyards everywhere.  if there was land there was a vineyard.  hills, valleys, real big hills...they makin' wine baby.  i wonder what the DUI rate is in that town?  but talking about tearing down what i thought napa would be...when we got out of our car and walked in the marriot, the very first thing i noticed was some very large men everywhere.  not large like oh man, you are tall!  did you play basketball? kinda large, but just big.

turns out the raiders were in town too.  the raiders football team and us.  awesome.  i like this place.  and wouldn't you know it, there was also a filming site that we had to see too. (if you've read my blog for long, you know that one of brad's full time hobbies and loves is finding filming locations and exact places where the happenings took place.)

case in point:

and most all of his treks just lead me to another place i haven't been and i get to take pictures and buy new clothes for the trip so what's a girl got to loose.  side note:  why is it?  you have plenty of clothes.  everything you need until you are going to a new place?  and then suddenly you have absolutely nothing to wear.  it's a problem.  i know i'm not alone.

this location was a little different.  it was a true story surrounding the murder mystery of the zodiac killings.  brrrrrrrrrr, yeah.  one murder location riiiiiight were we were.  and of course not a soul was around.  oh no.  not even a little chirping bird for the ear to hear.  needless to say, i stayed away from down there.  no thanks and hurry up.  and trust me, i can too get your picture from here.  i can.  let me tell you if a car would have pulled up behind where i was standing with my camera, i might have peed all over myself then and there as a grown adult woman.  just call me fergie.



done and done.  now let's go.  please.
little did i know san francisco's crime scene would be even more freaky.  and of course we found it.  smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood.
bless my little fast beating heart.

i could spend some serious re-lax-a-tion up in these hills.  i'm not even a wine drinker, but i'd belly up to the wine tastings to stay here for a while.
my my.


i tweeted where we should eat in napa and this is one of the place candace cameron bure (DJ TANNER!!!) tweeted back to me.  it was way overpriced, but of course delicious since it had her stamp of approval and because i mean, it was just kinda cool.



we found this little awesome deli for breakfast the next morning.  it was painted pink and white stripes on the outside and who doesn't want to eat somewhere like that?  it was fun and good and so seemed to be the local dive.

napa.  lovely country.  i like water more than wine, but still add it to your to do list.  right at the top.  before grocery and target. and just throw abandon to the wind, and call me---'cause i'm coming too.

new mexico in pictures.

if there is one thing brad and i know how to do, it's get out of town and find an adventure.  we are also pretty good at scrolling through netflix and finding a movie to watch and sprawl out on the couch and just be for nights on end.

our last adventure landed us in new mexico.  albuquerque to be exact.  we went to hunt down walter white...no really, we did.  and take in the sites.

 this is what happens to me when it's myyyyyyyyy turn for a picture.  and this was the best one!

 and then he looks great.  yeah, whatever dude.  you're coming home with me.

and yes i did leave this place with a bright red pair of moccasins.

it was so so fun, but you know how it is, as much as its fun to be on the go, it's always so so nice to get back home and get in the groove of things.

it was up there with one of my favorite trips.  well, but runs a close second to our forever drive to middle of nowhere land, iowa - now that was a good time.

happy friday.  smile at someone today - you might make their day.

dirty dancing! (and some instagrams for your friday)

get your mind out of the gutter, i am not about to post pictures of me dirty dancing (not that there is any) or any one else.  it's DIRTY DANCING, the movie.  brad and i went to see where to movie was filmed and i felt like i was walking hand in hand with johnny, except he's not real and my name is not baby.  my middles name IS frances though...so it could happen.  i was walking hand in hand with brad and that was so much better any way.

"nobody puts baby in the corner."

i feel like there might be a lot of OMG!!!'s needed in this blog from a girl that doesn't do abbreviations or OMGS!, because i am so excited to share with you all the pictures of our day there, it was really really exciting.  i think one of the reasons it was so awesome was because it was like they were going to film tomorrow, it was like you had stepped back in time and suddenly you were an extra on the set and if you went into the right room...you just might see johnny and baby doing their thing on the dance floor.

i tried to talk brad into getting in the lake so we could do a lift, he turned me down.  then i tried to talk him into me running and doing a a lift all dramatic like, and still i was turned down.  then there was the log, just maybe he would walk on the log with my OVER the water.  no, nothing.

so i just began to sing "join hands and hearts and voices, voices hearts and hands" over and over again and got louder with each overture and he decided that maybe the lift wasn't such a bad idea.

i mean, are you as excited as me about this?  because dirty dancing is THE BEST MOVIE EVER!

i will tell you this...(and i really hope my mom still has no computer and does not read my blog, when i checked this morning things were still the same...if so, i am in trouble.)...we didn't have a television growing up, for no reason other than my dad felt like there wasn't anything great on the tv, so for no other reason than that, he made the choice that our family would not have one.  and it was good and fine...

because...

aunt sheron had a tv.

she loved to watch movies and funny enough, i loved to go to her house all the time.  i would walk to her house daily (morrison lane, remember?  she lived at the end)  to visit and to hang out with her, not to watch tv really, but just see her because i love her and enjoyed spending time with her.  well...one day she introduced me to dirty dancing, and we watched it about once a week and all the time after that.  i knew i was not allowed to watch movies like that, so i would watch with my eyes glued to the screen and my ears honed into the sound of the tractor and as soon as i would hear it, i would watch for my daddy to appear, and if he stayed outside, i would continue watching, but on those days he came in for lunch...well, those days i had to put baby and johnny in the corner because if not, i knew i would be the one in the corner.

1.  baby's cabin

2.  pretty rocks (nothing to do with anything)

3.  gazebo where her dad sat in the rocking chair when he told her he was really disappointed in her...

4.  a stone with a passage in memory of patrick swayze

1.  the lake where they did the lift.

2.  my husband is cuter than yours dot com

3.  a look at the whole kellermans (mountain lake) resort

4.  kellermans

1.  where they pulled up in their car as they were arriving to the resort, right after baby's daddy told her she wanted to save the world

2.  baby's cabin from a far...

3.  the dining room where her family ate and he met max, and johnny happened to walk through...and she said, "who is that???" (as would i)

4.  up close and personal with baby's estate

1.  a closer view of the rock

2.  baby and johnny's chairs while shooting!!!  how cool is that?!?

now moving on...instagrams for the week.

(the selection is kinda sad this week)

1.  the fellas has their girlfriends over, one has a broken arm that i forgot to sign.  darn!

2.  we started flag football, which means boiling of the mouthguards. hooray.

3.  the wooten brothers playing at our friends wedding! awesome!

4.  my handsome groom...and the actual groom at the wedding.

5.  break in summertime with some tv (not dirty dancing, i promise!)

6.  the belcourt theatre in nashville.

have a good weekend, let me know your instagram name and i will follow you!

mine is morrisonlane (i like to keep things simple like that...)