Hermann 2009

Every year we get a group together to go out to Hermann, MO to winery hop and just spend some quality time with one another.  This year did not disappoint!  We went a week after my second surgery.  We started at Bommarito Winery and of coursse the first thing I did was find a cat:



Our annual picture of the girls in front of the fireplace:



At Bommarito, we enjoyed a feast of cheese, crackers, fruit, sandwiches, chips, cookies, etc.  And of course we drank some yummy Bommarito wines along with all that.  After all the food and a few rounds of Scattergories, we moved on to Hermanhoff Winery.

Here are a couple pictures there:

Matt looks dashing in my scarf:


Adam decided to play with "fire":


After the tasting at Hermannhoff, we were all getting pretty hungry again.  We were staying in a beautiful mansion called Birk's Gasthaus.   Luckily we were the only ones who rented out rooms for that night so we had the whole place to ourselves!  We decided to just order in pizzas and take advantage of the mansion.  However, we were told by the B&B owner that there is no pizza delivery in Hermann.  So we went out.  Tim had the awesome idea of having us all wear "funny" shirts.  Here are the boys in their funny shirts:



After dinner, we went back to Birk's and hit up the game room.  The boys played pool for a while:



And then we started a game of Circle of Death.  The following are my favorite pictures of each of us playing the game:

Adam:


Katie:


Tim (Thumb Master):


Sarah:


Matt:


Me:


During the game of Circle of Death, we had a couple of interesting rules.  If you had to drink, you must pay  someone a compliment AND you had to say your biggest fantasy.  Katie kept drawing low cards which means she had to keep giving herself drinks.  Here's what happened on one of her turns:



Then our husbands decided to show us some love:

Tim and Sarah - So Sweet!:


Katie and Adam - Again Sweet!:


And, here is Matt and me . . . not quite so sweet . . . where did I find him - oh yea, karaoke bar . . .


But I'm glad he grabbed the left one and not the right one because I ended up with an ice pack on the right one since my incision began to throb a bit (yes, there is a bag of ice under my shirt):


I went to bed early while everyone else stayed up and played Texas Hold em.  When we woke up the next morning we ate a wonderful breakfast prepared by Rich at Birk's Gasthaus.

Today's Wonderfuls:

• Keeping up with an annual tradition (this was the 6th year in a row!)
• Winery hopping
• Having the B&B all to ourselves
• Great friends who make trips like this so much more fun!