zip line: 365 Days Later

I can't believe it's been a year already! I still haven't even sent my pic choices to the photographer yet for our wedding album...Jeff and I have some vacations coming up so we wanted our 1 year anniversary to be special but we wanted to stick close to home. We were lucky in that it happened to fall on Labor Day weekend so we had an extra day to celebrate. We started off by going to La Jolla on Saturday evening and walking around the cove, getting drinks at Bull & Bear and ending the night with Cold Stone. It was a warm and balmy evening and the cool sea air and moonlight on the waves was very romantic. There were several weddings going on so it was kind of fun to spy and reminisce. Sunday we slept in and had a nice lazy morning and then headed to Temecula. We started off with lunch in Old Town and then walked around for a few hours. There are lots of cute shops and I bought some Christmas ornaments. I decided I'm going to collect wine themed ornaments in the hopes of having a Martha Stewart-esque tree with a wine theme someday. We also stopped at a tasting room for Longshadow Ranch. We befriended the bartender and he was rockin' the Bob Marley which was cool. It reminded us of our honeymoon in Jamaica! We left with a bottle of delicious Port and then went to check into our room at Temecula Creek Inn. Once at the hotel we hung out on the patio listening to the Ipod, opened a bottle of Chardonnay and just relaxed for a few hours. For dinner we headed to Francesca's, an Italian restaurant Jeff took me to the night before he proposed to me. The next morning we hit the wine trail. Started off with lunch on the Patio at Southcoast which is where we got engaged. The wine pourer there became our BFF once we told her to pick our tastes for us. I'm pretty sure we got about 12 pours when we only paid for 6. She was pretty fun. South Coast wine is okay, but if you ever get a chance to have the Ruby Cuvee I highly recommend it. It's my favorite wine there. Then we headed up the road a bit to Ponte. Our wine pourer was Sean, the same guy who poured our wine when we were there two years ago celebrating our engagement. Ponte has some really delicious wines. I'm not a dessert wine person but they had a really good Sparkling Muscato. I picked up a bottle of that because I wanted to share it with the girls for my upcoming girls weekend in Laguna Beach (more on that later). We wandered the grounds and just enjoyed sitting outside. The weather had been unbearably hot the past few weeks but that Sunday it cooled down a little and there was a slight breeze. It was a beautiful day to sit outside and sip wine. After Ponte we decided to do a drive by at Oak Meadows, our venue. We pulled up and it was just as beautiful as when Jeff and I first discovered it. We knew within 30 seconds of seeing it the first time that it was 'the' place. After that we headed to The Compound and Jeff decided that for our 5 year we're going to rent it out again and invite the whole crew back to relive that fun, yet crazy weekend. We called it a day after that and headed home, opened up a bottle champagne we had gotten as a gift on our wedding day and sipped it out of our wedding flutes. I have to say it was low key, but was the perfect 1 year anniversary. I fall more in love with my Jeff every day and look forward to growing old with him. The year went by so fast, but that must mean we're having fun!

A sign I thought was funny in Old Town Temecula