Santa Barbara Memorial Day Weekend - Saturday Wine Tasting

On Saturday, we went to the Santa Maria Valley to go wine tasting at a few vineyards. We drove through some of the hills that were scorched by a recent wildfire and down a road from the movie Sideways. I have never been to a vineyard before, so it was really interesting. The countryside is so beautiful.

The first one we went to: Rancho Sisquoc








Foxen




Zaca Mesa




















The last vineyard we went to: Beckmen Vineyard

Santa Barbara Memorial Day Weekend - Friday

About 15 of my ole CMU friends from all over the country met up in Santa Barbara for Memorial Day weekend. We were there to visit a friend who recently open his own Melting Pot fondue restaurant franchise in downtown SB. Santa Barbara is about a 3 hour drive north of where I live. It is such a great place. Here are some pics from the drive up my first half day there.

I picked up a couple of my friends from LAX on my way up, which made the second half of my drive so much more fun. We stopped in Malibu and had a picnic on a pier.














Some pics from the hotel in SB.






Stay Tuned for more pics of the rest of the trip.

Red Bull Air Race Videos- Day 2

Here are the videos from the second day of racing.

The helicopter running the course as mentioned in yesterday's post.








I kept forgetting to film the very end of each race where the pilot would usually do flips and cool tricks. I finally remembered by the end of day two.


I tried to film the race through the bridge, but no luck. Here is a new view with yachts.








A crazy ending trick.


As I was leaving, I got a video of the approach onto the course with navy ships in the background.


This concludes the Air Race stuff. So dear blog readers, who wants to visit me to watch this next year?

Red Bull Air Race Pics- Day 2

Sunday, the second day of the air races turned out to be a much sunnier and clear day.

The day started off with a helicopter maneuvering the course for fun. I will post the video of it tomorrow.



The helicopter pilots.


The Coast Guard did a mock rescue for the crowd.
















I love this jumbotron pic.

Red Bull Air Race Videos- Day 1

Here are some short videos from Day 1 of the races.





In this video the plane clips one of the inflatable markers.




The longest video that shows most of the course.