This morning we headed up to the Sterling Winery. This is the winery that you had to take a gondola up the side of a mountain to get to it. When we got there and saw how small the gondolas were, we took one look at each other and said no way. So we bought a bottle of wine at the bottom and then headed for some safer adventure.
These are pictures of the Sterling winery taken from the Castle a few days before. You can see it in the background of the pictures.
I'm not sure if this was safer or not. Now remember I told you at every winery we stopped at Tim usually bought a bottle of wine. If we both tasted that would be $20 and if you purchased a bottle they would waive the fee so why not buy the bottle. We ended up having 24 bottles after we went back to the Bennett Lane winery to get three more bottles of the awesome Chardonnay. This is by far the best wine I had all week. Now I bet your wondering how we are going to get all this wine home. They have these 12 pack boxes that you can check them like luggage but they are very very heavy so we headed out to find a UPS shipping spot. Now to ship 24 bottles was quite expensive. By the time we added insurance it was $140. I think money well spent so I didn't have to carry the darn things through the airport.
After leaving the UPS store we headed back down highway 29 to see if there was anywhere we wanted to stop and hadn't made time yet. We decided to go into Robert Mondavi Winery just to say we had been there. It was very nice. We didn't take the tour or taste the wine because we couldn't buy anymore.
Our next stop was the Go Fish restaurant. We had a great mac and cheese appetizer with shrimp. Tim had salmon sandwich and I did the fish and chips. It was ok. I'm just not crazy about fish. It was very nice though.
On our way back to Calistoga I saw this old vine vineyard. The heat fan was old and rusty and I thought what a great picture. I made Tim turn around and go back and pull over so I could get this picture.
We headed back to Calistoga to find the kids a souvenir. The t-shirt shop was our only choice. There isn't much here in Napa Valley for kids. We strolled Main street in Calistoga and stopped in a little coffee bar. We enjoyed a nice cup of coffee and then headed back to the hotel to rest before dinner.
Our last night here we ate at the Calistoga Inn. It had a really nice little garden area and the food was incredible. I had Carribean Jerk Chicken and Tim had the steak tonight. It was so delicious and the atmosphere was wonderful. We had a great bottle of wine duh! We are in Napa Valley. 
After that wonderful dinner we headed back to the hotel to pack up. It went pretty quick and we are ready for the trip home.
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