Animals and Wine?

Today was a good day, knowing travels will involve animals and wine. After dealing with Social Security Administration (outstanding rep.,she was great), we went to a petting zoo. Actually the zoo was a small farm called Sugar Plum Farm. The camel, Zeus, was a definite people camel, he loves human interaction.
Carol is with Aurora the zebra. Carol and I were fascinated by the fact that her dark stripes are raised. or was it, her light stripes were close cut? Either way she was a beauty. Other critters that live on the farm include a water buffalo named Ophelia, a capybara named Eros,  alpacas, llamas, exotic birds, and a Juliana pig named Daisy. The petty zoo is small but fun, and when you're done petting the animals, you get a sample piece of chocolate. The petting zoo is only a tease to get one to buy chocolates, ask Carol, when she walked out with two flavors of truffles.

Our next stop was a little wine tasting at a winery we had visited in the past on a wine tour. Our philosophy is to have dessert before the main meal, to ensure we don't over order the main course. With that said we did some wine tasting. It is amazing how a relationship kinders a similar taste in wines.

We settled on the "Field Blend", "White Merlot", and a Port of course. One of the wine stewards explained how red wines get their color. The longer the red grape skins are kept in the mix, the darker the wine will be.

After dessert we headed out to try a new burger joint, that's new to us. The place is called Burger im, which has multiple meat choices for your burger, ranging from Angus beef to salmon.

Carol ordered the Angus burger, I had the salmon burger. Carol enjoyed her burger, I was a little disappointed with mine. The pineapple had a stronger flavor than the salmon, and the bun would have been better toasted. We do plan on making a return visit, and I will try the lamb burger.

After lunch we headed home for a nap before our night at the Comedy Club.

We received the tickets for the show when we ate at Kelsey's a couple of nights earlier.

The headliner was Murray Valeriano. He was OK, but I was turned off when the "F" word was slung around too much for me. Part of his show was scripted, but he was flexible enough to interact with the audience. After the show Carol and I walked back home to relax and prep for tomorrows events. Walking over to the show we were wondering what was happening tomorrow because there are all kinds of TV trucks here. During the show we learned that there will be a televised boxing event.

Good night.