My birthday weekend: Part II

Wine, Women and Horses!

We finally coordinated this day at Wakefield Barn. We won a package called Wine, Women and Horses at the Triangle Wine Experience auction 2 years ago that was generously donated by Steve Schilling and Mark Selisker of Dogwood Business Brokers and Advisors. Steve and his wife, Mary, happen to own the Wakefield Barn and were gracious enough to open it up to us for an afternoon of fun.

We started out with the wine portion of the package - a double magnum of 2000 Reserve Phelps Insignia.



Steve and Mark opened the wine...



Look how many decanters are lined up to handle that bottle!



We had a little white wine and some snacks while waiting for the red to open up.





Then we headed outdoors for a tour of the barn and to meet the horses and riders!











We also got to feed the horses a little treat for all of their hard work:







We then went back inside to cool off, continue the great conversation and to drink more fabulous wine!













After the Insignia was gone, someone opened some sparkling. Anyone who knows me knows that made me happy! There was a lot of smiling, a lot of laughter and great conversation!



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These three ladies were the "women" portion of the Wine, Women and Horses! The two riders and Mary, the owner of Wakefield barn. What wonderful women! We had fun getting to know them :)



This one is probably my favorite picture from the day. It pretty much sums up how much fun we were having!



I was lucky that one of my best friends, Jennifer, was there AND knows how to work a camera. Or maybe I wasn't so lucky. I truly love horses, but who thought it was a good idea to ride a horse in a dress after a long afternoon of wine? Oh well, I promise I'd post the pictures anyway ;)





It almost looks like I know what I'm doing here. Don't be fooled, I almost fell off about 20 feet after this shot was taken.

Thank you, Mary, for trusting me to ride Westerly!

Overall - awesome birthday!