That might be the longest post title I’ve ever used.
There are few things in the world better than cupcakes and wine. I mean think about it. Excluding Life’s essentials, what’s better than delicious gourmet cupcakes and free wine? Nothing right? Not even cats in top hats!
Since Ryan was going to be working much of the time that I would be in California, I asked him to find a few things for me to do while I was out there. Ryan is incredibly good at this sort of stuff. He planned the epic spring break we had a few years that went from Kansas City to Buffalo New York to Niagara Falls Canada to Toronto to New York City to Washington DC and back to Kansas City. Quite possibly the best vacations of our lives.
Never to disappoint, Ryan managed to find three of my favorite things as events in the city. Cupcakes, wine tastings and a half-off coupon, in this case, all together. It’s the San Francisco Cake Moda Cupcake Wars at Crush Barrel Wine Market. I’m in and so were my friends Kevin and Dave.
We made the bus ride to San Francisco’s wharf to the Herbst Pavilion and readied our tickets, thanks Eventbrite and Yelp for the hookup. We were in for the gastronomic time of our lives. Right? There was lots of fun live music, great wines to try out and a coupon for $10 off any wine purchase. Win!
Alas, who knew it would be possible to go to an all-you-can-eat cupcake and wine tasting and not have a single cupcake? Also, who knew that not eating all day coupled with drinking lots of wine could be a bad idea?
Both lessons were learned on this voyage to Cupcake Desert, Wine Oasis. Apparently 1,000 other people had the same idea and the free cupcakes became $1-4 cupcakes and all you can eat became all you can afford and dare to wait in line for. We wandered around for a bit, enjoyed some wine, kevetched on the complete absence of free cupcakes, took some photos and eventually decided this wasn’t our scene.
Instead we opted for a cupcake from Ghiradelli Square and dinner with Ryan and Mark at Home.
The next morning I woke up extra early, picked up my rental car, a sweet Volkswagen Jetta and headed north to Healdsburg where a limousine, Kayla and a great time awaited me.
Awesome pics! Surly you took more than that though, You should post em online for all to see.
Awesome pics! Surly you took more than that though, You should post em online for all to see.
Posted this on the wrong page, but same idea still applies.
Posted this on the wrong page, but same idea still applies.
@TheDigitalNinja Thanks! There are more to come in future posts, I have two or three yet left to do! Normally I’d do one massively long post but decided this time around to spread them out so they are a little more reader friendly.
I’m also experimenting with videos incorporating the photos to help with post byte size and length, some of my older posts are pages and pages long with tons of photos. I have an idea of posting thumbnails in the future to help with this, just gotta figure out the best way to grid that out.
Thanks for your thoughts, glad you enjoyed the post, that you made a comment (so hard to convince people to do that haha) and make sure you come back for the rest!
@TheDigitalNinja Thanks! There are more to come in future posts, I have two or three yet left to do! Normally I’d do one massively long post but decided this time around to spread them out so they are a little more reader friendly.
I’m also experimenting with videos incorporating the photos to help with post byte size and length, some of my older posts are pages and pages long with tons of photos. I have an idea of posting thumbnails in the future to help with this, just gotta figure out the best way to grid that out.
Thanks for your thoughts, glad you enjoyed the post, that you made a comment (so hard to convince people to do that haha) and make sure you come back for the rest!