Year end trip of 2010, Day 4--Santa Rosa & Sonoma

Here is the hotel we stayed at Santa Rosa with the day time view....We took some photos with Peanuts characters on the street and later found out they have a map of all those characters hidden in this small town. I guess that will be our next goal when we get to come here again--to find all the characters on the map :)


We went to their gift shop and cafe to check out more characters since the museum was not open yet when we arrived....


We took some photos inside and outside of the museum. The big wall in black and white with Charlie and Lucy was actually put together by little comic strips....very impressive...



That is where all the Peanuts characters came from...the studio Schultz worked from....and I think it was just moved directly from his house....

We decided to check out some more wineries at Sonoma after we went back to Napa to get the case of Merlot and some white wines....We stopped by Ledson for some photos, and then went through most of Sonoma just by driving.


We did wine tasting at Chateau St Jean, which surprisingly turned out to be very pleasant. We joined our 1st wine club in my life time, and I am quite excited about that :)

Took a photo with the old guy who explained wines to us and got me interested in signing up for the wine club. We will be getting our 1st shipment in Feb supposedly. We also bought two bottles of Gewurtstraminer which has lychee flavor :)

Drove through San Francisco to get to our hotel at San Mateo. The hotel was nice but they charged us 20 dollars per night just for parking....amazing how some hotels do that just to rip customers off....

We had dinner at San Mateo....The place was called Astaria and the food was nice.



Desserts looked nicer than how they tasted....still....it was not bad....