March 28, 2004

Vice & Virtue

This was a fundraising weekend. On Saturday we went to a wine tasting that benefitted my niece's school. This was how the conversations kept going last week:

Other Person: Hey, Nic, what are you up to this weekend?
Me: I'm going to a wine tasting fundraiser at my niece's school.
OP (in a tone of confusion/shock/surprise): Wine? Isn't your niece in kindergarden?
Me: Catholic school.
OP (in a tone of comprehension): Oh, ok.

Hey, it beats a bake sale. It was a good wine tasting...they had more than a dozen distributors there, each pouring six or eight wines. And these were different labels, too, not Kendall-Jackson. I tried a lot I liked, but my favorite was an Australian called Twin Beaks...the Shiraz, of course, but I the Merlot was really good, too...and lucky me, this wine retails for nine bucks a bottle. They also had huge tables of hot hor'dorves, vegetables, awesome pesto and bruschetta, and chocolate; coffee from the local gourmet shop; and a raffle where my sister won a basket of cheeses. They poured the wine generously and I ate like a pig, so I know I got my money's worth, and the school gets another cut from the case of wine I bought. Hey, this is my niece...I want her using Crayolas, not those cheap knock-off crayones that are nothing but wax and toxic metals.

The only drawback to last night was the abbreviated sleep...we had to get up at 6 to go a the Columbia's Cure 5K. Originally we were going to try the 25K bike ride, but the prospect of riding hung over (which I wasn't, actually, just a little dried out), coupled with trouble my knees have been giving me lately, made us opt for walking instead.

It was a touch cool and windy (making me very happy I'd decided not to ride) but the route around the lake was very pleasant. Victor took a lot of pictures, especially at the starting line of the kids' race, which was a riot...all those serious little people with their game faces on. We finished up the morning with a stop at my sister's house to help her eat some of last night's brie, along with bread, apples, and pears. I ate so much cheese I forgot we had chocolate, too.

So...overindulging, raising money for kids, exercising, raising money for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, and more overindulging. It is good to lead a balanced life.

Posted by Nic at March 28, 2004 02:44 PM | TrackBack
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