Wine is bottled

We bottled most of our 2009 wine on Sunday after we finally decided our winery name and got the wine labels printed. We decided on Des Jardin which is of the garden and is also Meg's maiden name. Meg painted the dogwood branch and they came out looking really professional.
We ended up with about 200 bottles and we kept 8 gallons of Cab to blend with our 2010 Cab next year. We have Zinfindel, Syrah, Cab Sauv., Merlot and a Zinfindel Rose. Most of them we kept solo but we did blend some Zin and Merlot (named Nepenthe) and made a Meritage with Cab, Merlot and Zin and also a few bottles of Cab Merlot.
I obtained some huge bottles last summer and we filled up 4 of them. They each hold about 4 regular bottles. Lots of fun for parties.
So, the wine is still a little young but we are anxious to share it. We need to have people over soon.

Disneyworld Pics

I took about 500 pics at Disneyworld and uploaded 100 of them to Flickr. I know that is a lot but there were a lot of good ones. Here they are. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nylands4/sets/72157625771887944/

Last night in the Magic Kingdom

Our last full day- spent in the magic kingdom. Just enjoyed the Electric Light parade and then fireworks over the castle. My theory that the park would be less crowded this afternoon/ evening because people would be heading home was wrong, wrong, wrong!!! Who are all these people, and don't they have to go to school and work tomorrow??!?!

Cocoa beach

We are sick of disney so we rented a car and got away for a day. Ended up at cocoa beach and had a great day on the beach. The boys dug in the sand and then we had a good lunch on the cocoa beach pier.