Trip to the northern mountain region of Georgia

Yesterday we took a day trip up north. North Georgia that is.  The weather was perfect.  The morning was nice and cool, the humidity was very low and the sky was clear.  It honestly felt like a normal day in California.  I was loving it!!!!

The main reason for the trip was to go to the first annual Crush Fest at Yonah Mountain Vineyards.  This is a relatively new vineyard and the festival was on their grounds.

While Jeremy did a little tasting of their wines, Caroline and I explored a bit. 

We're standing on top of "the cave."  Check out that sky!

Standing in line for a tour of the cave

So we took a tour of the cave.  It's basically a man-made cave that they dug out to do some of their winemaking and to store the barrels of wine.  It was nice and cool in there.  Not a great picture, but you can get an idea of the barrels all stacked up.

A field waiting for vines

Afterwards we took a short drive to Helen to check out this quaint, Bavarian style town and have a little dinner.  It is situated right on the Chatahoochee River and very cute.  We ate dinner at a restaurant that overlooked the river and we enjoyed watching all the people tubing down this very slow, shallow and muddy river.

After dinner we took a short stroll through town on the way back to the car.  There were lots of sights to see and smell (funnel cakes!) and there happened to be a horsedrawn carriage that was stopped near us and Caroline was excited to pet the horse.

It was a long day, but Caroline did remarkably well.  She acted like such a young lady the entire day, but was exhausted by the time we made it home.  She slept in until almost 9:00 this morning!