Biltmore!

Cari and I had a great get-away day recently in Asheville, NC at the Biltmore Estate.  This has quickly become one of our favorite places to visit.  This "castle" is amazing to tour.

We started our day early as the house opened and, while touring inside, there wasn't much of a crowd.  As we exited and found some lunch, we noticed that it was becoming quite busy on the property.  We took a guided tour titled "Family and Friends" that takes you into some of the rooms not normally on the tour.  The guide told us about the people that stayed in the house and some of the customs of the late 1800's.  We really enjoyed the extra tour.  While we were on the Friends & Family tour we noticed that the house was becoming very busy inside.

After our guided tour we headed over to the winery for a brief tour and then a wine tasting.  It was during this time that, unaware until that night, I was photographed.  A fellow blogger and photographer was also visiting Biltmore that day and spotted us heading onto our tour.  Tom and I have never met in person and it would have been very exciting.  Unfortunately, he said that after he snapped the photo and put his camera down we had already moved into the winery with the tour.  We had both been at the estate all day and probably had crossed paths multiple times.

Cari and I did enjoy our first experience wine tasting.  With a list that we were clueless about, we randomly chose a few to try.  After our sampling, we entered into the store and purchased a bottle of wine.  Of course, we chose one that we had NOT sampled just moments earlier.  It's not that we didn't like the ones we sampled, that's just the way we roll!

When we got home, we read the label on our wine and the label suggests that the wine we purchased goes good with pizza.  What luck!

You can tell how incredibly sophisticated we are, can't you?