Day 5 - a little shopping, a little roadtripping

Jen got up before me, and headed off for a walk and a workout in the park, and came back to wake me up and force me into my gym clothes for a run that I was not really feeling but knew that I should given the amount of calorie consumption we’ve been enjoying.  It was SUCH a beautiful morning, it was warm, sunny, its just a beautiful country setting running by vineyards, beautiful properties, etc. 

After a 5k run we  did a few push ups in the park, stretched a little and went back to our room for breakfast.  This was THE CUTEST breakfast EVER.  They left a little basket of pastries hanging on our door!! 

 

 

While jen was showering, I set up the breakfast on the bistro table on our little terrace – I toasted the leftover baguette, we had leftover caramel sauce, and Bungalows 313 provided fruit, coffee, the best homemade granola ever (so good that jen hoarded it in a plastic baggie to bring on the road rather than allow us to eat it all at once), milk and cream in the cutest little milk bottles ever, and delicious almond croissants. 









The only notable negative, were the damn wasps that wanted to enjoy our breakfast also.  The grounds are gorgeous with beautiful flowers and so of course there are bees and wasps, and once the food is out, they came around also but I kept my cool as much as I could.

 

They allowed us to check out a little later, so we took our time finishing breakfast and packed up the jeep and walked into the town square for a little shopping, wine and chocolate tasting!

and finally were able to eat at the Girl and the Fig for lunch where we had the most delicious Croque Monsieur ever. 

The bread was sliced super thick, and it was crispy yes chewing and cheesy all at the same time.  The ham was applewood smoked, and it came with a salad while I had leek mussels with matchstick fries. YUM..i don’t normally eat the soup/juice that the mussels sit in, but this was SOOO yummy.

We then grabbed some coffees and put our top down for the first time, and headed to Carmel-by-the-Sea.  The California weather varies widely – so we left Sonoma and it was very hot and beautiful, but as we approached the Golden Gate Bridge it was rather cold again, and to layer up.  The drive to Carmel-by-the-Sea was a little longer than anticipated and we arrived in town around 8:30pm where our gracious host at the Vagabond’s House Inn was waiting for us.  More in our next post about Carmel-by-the-Sea!