Keeping up with the Bragassas: Brian's Mom and Dad came to visit!

A few weeks ago, Brian's mom and dad flew out here to check out our new home! Their trip started off a little rough, as those of you know who fly standby, by after 20 long hours of traveling they finally made it here. Needless to say, Friday night they were pretty exhausted from the long day of traveling along with the time change, so we just hung out for a little bit and showed them the house. Saturday, we made our way up to Napa and stopped at a few wineries. Our favorites so far, V. Sattui and Castello di amorosa, were both pretty busy as they were preparing for their harvest parties. Luckily, Castello di amorosa (aka Castle Winery) was able to fit us in for a tour...which was absolutely amazing!! It is such a neat place and the tour was so informative! The castle has something like 112, including a dungeon, chapel, and a gigantic wine cellar. All in all, there are 8 stories of castle to explore and we got to see a lot of it! We also learned that this was the setting for one of the dates on Jake's season of The Bachelor for those of you who watch it! After a day of driving around Napa, we decided to go to dinner at Mustards, which was fabulous as well! We actually saw Evan Lysacek, the figure skater and Dancing with the Stars guy, at the restaurant which was kind of neat! The next day was kind of cloudy and actually drizzled in the morning, so we went to church and then to brunch at the officer's club on base. Afterwards, Bobbie and I spent the afternoon just hanging out on our back patio chatting away while the boys watched every single football game. It was such a nice relaxing day:) Sadly, on Monday, Bobbie and Tim had to leave to get back home. To add to the jet lag and crazy weekend, their flight was at 7 a.m. so we had to leave the house around 4 to get them to the airport on time...it was definitely an early morning but it all worked out in the end since they were able to get on the flight. I know they didn't want to have to go through another crazy 20 hour traveling fiasco again!