wine & vines in long island, ny


last weekend i got to enjoy some true fall leaves (love you houston, but where are your leaves?) & the company of some wonderfully crazy old friends up in new york.


what could be more fun than your best college girlfriends, a reunion, birthday celebration, wine, and new york city, all rolled into one?  our weekend kicked off with a delicious dinner at osteria morini in soho (little italian restaurants in nyc are among my fave things in the world), followed by a wine tour through the beautiful vineyards of long island, some incredible bagels, a near-death bathroom/limo situation, and a lot of reminiscing, laughs, and inappropriateness.


i miss these girls already.  


the funny thing about really good friends is that you can go months, even years, without seeing each other or even really talking to one another, but the second you all end up in the same room, it's like nothing has changed.  we could have been back in someone's freshman year dorm drinking franzia, and you wouldn't know the difference.  (except i'd like to think that our clothes, hair, and life decisions may have improved slightly?)



or, perhaps not.


regardless, maybe that is a good way to judge your friendships.  because as much as we'd all like to think we are much more mature & have more figured out these days than we did in college.... who are we kidding?  no one has really changed that much.  and trust me, for these girls, that is a great thing.


beautiful birthday girls


in long island, we visited three vineyards:
pugliese vineyard
baiting hollow vineyard - 
my favorite of all of the wines.
live music & lovely scenery 
vineyard 48-
a vineyard like i have never seen: 
with frozen sangria & a dance party.