A Fun Outing

Last weekend I was at my annual Girls Weekend getaway with dear friends from college. We've been doing this ever since graduating 7 years ago and it's something we all look forward to every year.

This year was hosted by one of the girls in Houston and she creatively themed it "I've Never". {Every year we have a theme. We're super cheesy like that. We even have a name for ourselves, the Cupcakes. I know...cheese. But we love it.} Here's the back of our shirts. Matching shirts was a first this year. Another I've Never.Anyways, we did a bunch of stuff that most of us have never done: wear a bridesmaids dress again, tour an ice cream factory, take a self defense class, learn to crochet, etc. One of the "I've Nevers" was at a place called Water 2 Wine. That's what this post is about...I'll spare you the details of the rest of our weekend.

Water 2 Wine was so much fun. You can make your own wine blends there, but it takes 8 weeks before you get your wine back. Instead of that option, we chose to bottle wine.

After a tour of the facility and an education on the wine making process, we tasted 8 different wines of our choosing. Everyone wrote down their favorites and we each voted for a red and white we liked.

We tallied the votes and then gave the owners our selection. They brought out the large jugs of wine and taught us how to sterilize the bottles, fill them, cork, label and foil.

Sterilizing.

Filling.

Corking.

It was a neat process and we all had a lot of fun.

Em designed gorgeous labels for our bottles. She's so talented!Water 2 Wine is a growing franchise that has locations in California, Colorado and Texas. It's a great venue for a wedding shower, girls night out, or birthday. You can drop in just for casual wine tastings or for as much as making your own wine blends. We had a blast so I thought I'd share it with you.

Is it tacky that four of us posing in this picture are pregnant? No worries. We had a "spit bucket" at our table to dump all of the wines in after we had our tiny tastes.

And thanks for all of the great ideas for finding out the baby's gender. I'll let you know next week what we do.