The pictures came in the mail today!!! YAY!!! I have spent WAY TOO LONG looking at them today, and I still am no where close to having them separated, uploaded, etc. : ( If you want to take a look, check out our share site - nickpluslauren.shutterfly.com 
Our first stop was Koehler Winery first. Check out Nick's technique!!!
Koehler cat
the grounds
Buttonwood Winery was next on our tour. This one was not our favorite, so we sat outside in the beautiful gardens.
The last stop on the tour was Lucas & Lewellen's tasting room, but since we had already been there our tour guide set us up with a personal tour at Presidio's tasting room (everyone else went to L & L). We purchased a bottle of ? (I have to go check!), and we bought a shipping box to check on the airplane with all of our wine bottles and tasting glasses!
fire damage
We enjoyed a glass of wine on our balcony before dinner, and tried to take some artistic photos: )
We took a taxi downtown, and then we enjoyed dinner at the Santa Barbara Brewing Company. Dinner was fun because the Lakers were playing the Nuggets in the NBA finals and the game went into overtime! It was a great atmosphere with all the Laker fans!
After dinner, I had some frozen yogurt - YUM! 
Nick stopped into a movie theatre and bought some nachos - ha! We took a cab back to the hotel and fell asleep without saying goodnight - again! We has such a wonderfuld day together, but we sure were tired!!!
coastline...WOW!
sailboat
sea lions - LOVE them!!
They were EVERYWHERE! We could see them/hear them the whole time!
smiles: )
sunset = beautiful
dolphins - Do you see them? Two of them are just to the right of the second vertical post from the left side of the picture. We saw about 20 of them!
coastline at sunset
reentering the harbor
The cruise was from 6-8, and then we went to an AWESOME dinner! We had Hitching Post's Pinot Noir 2004 while we enjoyed dinner at Aldo's. SO good! We sat outside (almost all of our meals in Santa Barbara were outside!) and truly soaked in the atmosphere.
Wednesday was amazing! After dinner, we went back to the hotel and tried to watch the movie...but I fell asleep AGAIN!
We woke up early on Wednesday, and Nick was feeling much better - YAY! I went for a run around town - SO beautiful! I wish I could run somewhere like that every day! Most of the run I could see the mountains, and the air was so dry compared to the KS humidity! After breakfast (OJ, egg/tomato/artichoke omelets, fruit, cinnimon rolls - YUM!), we packed up and drove the mile or so to our hotel - The Best Western Pepper Tree Inn. We decided to take a quick trip back up to the Solvang area. Nick missed the beautiful drive (we drove back a different way than we drove there) the day before because he was sickly and sleeping in the passenger seat. We retraced our steps and stopped along the way. 
After stopping for some lunchables (ha!), we reached Kalyra for our first tasting of day. 
Kalyra did not have our favorite wines, but the atmosphere was great, our pourer was knolwedagble, and we finally were at a winery from Sideways! We also received glasses with our tasting and purchased a metal heart for a wall at our house.
Is it obvious that everything was GORGEOUS!?! Blackjack had some tasty wines, and some of them were a little bit pricier! We ended up buying a bottle of the Double-Down Syrah 2005 and a bottle of the Chardonnay Wilkening Reserve 2006. This picture outside of the tasting room is one of my favorites!
While we prepared for our day, we watched Sideways. Nick brought it with us because the area we were visiting included the wineries in the movie. 
We snapped a quick photo before heading to Solvang, CA. 
Our first stop in Solvang was the vistors' center, and he helped point us in the right direction. We went to Lucas &Lewellen's tasting room first. We spent some time chatting with the graper grower's wife as she poured our tasting, and the grape grower himself came came from the vineyard. He chatted with us for a few minutes as well, and it was interesting for me to hear Nick "talk wine" with other knowledgable people. (Later in the week we bought a bottle of their Lucas & Lewellen 2007 Rose of Pinot Noir.
When we were done, we walked down to their other tasting room, Mandolina, to try the Italian varietals. Yummy! 
We enjoyed the wines here, and the ladies were nice and helpful! We also saw this book - 
So cute! I wish Callie could be a wine dog!
Nick and I enjoyed our caesar salad...little did we know it would change our day! It turns out that Nick is allergic to pine nuts - a fact we did not know until he had devoured them from atop his salad! I walked around the small town of Los Olivos, and Nick tried to overcome his reaction. His reaction was getting worse, so we decided to leave. I drove back to Santa Barbara, and Nick struggled in the car. We probably should have visited a doctor, but the benadryl helped enough to eventually help him overcome the symptoms.
I walked around State Street as well. It was a beautiful evening, but it was not much fun without my new hubby: (
...and when the local deli was closed, I was able to find us (expensive!) sandwiches at live culture downtown. We ate our sandwiches and began the movie...but I fell asleep a few minutes into it: (
We didn't have too much trouble making our way to Santa Barbara, CA by way of Denver, and we arrived in LA around 2pm to see our first palm tree... 
(Not the greatest pictures,
but it is literally the ocean on one side and mountain on the other!)
We ate dinner at Left at Albuquerque. It was SO good! For dessert, we sipped margaritas - one grape and one mango!
We had only been in Santa Barbara for a few hours, but we knew the rest of the trip would be a blast! We returned to our B & B, hopped into our hot tub for a few minutes to share some wine (after a return trip to the store for a corkscrew!), and then fell asleep without setting an alarm!
