Tuesday, November 20, 2012

tayla-may'd: wine, dancing and more wine

I love summer! It?s without a doubt my favourite time of the year. I love the weather, the food, music, festivals, Christmas, the beach, and lots of drinking! On Sunday we went to Toast Martinborough and had the best day experiencing all the things I love about Summer! Set across 10 different vineyards in Martinborough, buses take you to all the different vineyards where each one offers award-winning wines, delicious (but expensive) food, bands, music and stunning locations. I went with Dave and a big group of friends and although we only managed to make it to four of the ten vineyards, we had the most amazing time!

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We kicked off the morning with some champagne, breakfast (I went out last week without having a proper dinner and that was a very, very bad mistake) and pre-event photos!

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It was raining when we arrived there, so I?m so glad my friend Gemma had bought us some ponchos the day before to protect us from the rain. All the others got these really nice, colourful, thick ponchos with draw strings and buttons and Dave and I got stuck with these black ?All Blacks? ones that looked like rubbish bags haha, but at least we were dry!
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So the first vineyard we went to, I?m pretty sure was for all the oldies because we were the youngest group there, there was some 50-something-year-old DJ playing some classic rock and plenty of cougars and old men dancing in the marquee ? but the sun started to come out, and after we downed our first glasses of wine, a few of us purchased some $10 hot-dogs and we had a big of a boogie to ?I will survive? we decided to head over to the next vineyard.

This is where I got the camera out and the sun started to shine! (And where my memory starts to get rather hazy) but the locations were just so beautiful and it was so nice to be in a completely different environment drinking good wine, not cheap $7.99 bottles (I am a student to don?t judge me).

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The rest of the day was filled with more drinking, and lots of dancing as we made our way through the last two vineyards we visited! We saw plenty of drunk people at this stage, one girl getting carried out over a guys shoulder, with her shoes falling off etc.
The last vineyard was definitely the best and we stayed there the longest! We met up with all our friends at this place and danced for hours to the 'Beat Girls', I actually had the most amazing time here! To be honest, I don?t remember a whole lot of it! By this stage I lost my voice, and it?s still recovering now, but it was so worth it! I took about 200 photos at this one location.

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Dave?s best friend got so much attention for the day because he looked so much like PSY (can you tell which one he is)?? It was hilarious, and when Gangam Style came on everyone went nuts dancing with him ? omg one of the highlights of the day!!

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When it was time to leave, I really didn?t want to! The bus ride home was so much easier than the one on the way because everyone was so drunk and happy that it was just a really good atmosphere! I ended the day with a feed from McDonalds (standard) and was asleep by 9.30! Yesterday morning, I got a message from my friend saying there was a photo of me in the newspaper ? so I went out to buy it and found this!

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It?s kind of ironic that I have spent this whole year bagging on PDA couples and this winds up in the paper, but I don?t care! It?s super cute (even if my sunglasses are halfway down my face) and was taken as we were leaving to go home,? we didn?t even know the photo was being taken!

It was seriously the most amazing day and we all had such a good time! Such high spirits, great food, great wine, music and people! It was the first time going and I will definitely be going back every year now!
Happy beginning of summer everyone!
tayla

Source: http://blog.tayla.co.nz/2012/11/wine-dancing-and-more-wine.html

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