Heather Visits! 2/19 La Rodonda

Heather came for a week's visit and we swept here away first thing Sunday morning to the La Rodonda wine festival. There are many wineries here in Queretaro. In fact, there is a whole wine and cheese tour, kind of like that around the finger lakes. But today we went to a wine festival at LaRodonda winery. Wineries from all over Mexico were there handing out tastes. When we got to the festival and paid our entrance fee, they gave us each a glass for tasting! All you had to do was walk up to a booth, hold out your glass and they would pour you some as they were explaining the wines.

Needless to say, we did not understand much about the wines, in Spanish, but we knew what tasted good or not. If it did not taste good, you poured it out on the ground, discreetly, of course

They had tables and umbrellas set up for you to sit at, drink wine, eat, enjoy. There were bands playing and a ton of vendors of food and cheeses. We figured out what you do it taste the wines, find the one you like, buy a bottle and some food or cheese and sit and enjoy for the day! Well, we just had to give this a try

Heather and Mark are in the wine tasting tent. They had set these barrels up and people grabbed chairs, sat around them and listened to the music that was in the wine tent like Miriachis, etc. Mark found his bottle of red, Heather and I found our bottle of white and we were off in search of cheese.

Finding the cheese and being served the cheese were two completely different tasks we soon found out. We tasted and found our favorites, but the lady kept serving other people their purchased cheese and not ours. Talking about feeling like second class! It was probably because we were not Mexican, who knows.

Anyways, we got our cheese and we went off in search of a table. We found one amidst a cactus garden. Talk about dicotomy...Grapes and Cactus growing next to each other!

This is a view from the table we sat at. We sent Heather off to choose a few interesting looking things to eat and we had a very relaxing and enjoyable lunch. We even met the people at the table next to us, the lady, Sarah, had gone to Syracuse University..talk about small world!!

We left the winery and went to spend a couple hours in Bernal where Heather tried and bought candied rose petals to eat. An absolutely wonderful and enjoyable day was had by all. We have successfully given Heather a relaxing day away from school!