Ostrich weekend

Here in California there is a land of ostriches, windmills, wineries, and general fun. This January we made a trip on a whim and had a fabulous gateway.
We fed ostriches and emu, or, to be exact, tried not to become a pecking victim while trying to amuse ourselves feeding them some pre-purchased food pallets. There were warnings everywhere not to annoy the birds by standing too close without food in hand. So C did just that, to get the perfect photo of an angry ostrich:

This one was quite a lady, she gently ate her food, unlike pretty much everyone else there:

There we also purchased a fabulous malachite-green Emu egg, to be eaten later. It was quite expensive, around $30. But the shell is beautiful, and paying money for a new experience is something that i consider to be worthwhile, so we did. A few weeks later we made an awesome omelet out of the egg, documenting the entire process.Egg pictures to be added later.

While there, we walked around the small pretty town of Solvang, did a few wine tastings, which both of us enjoyed, and even purchased some $28 bottle of awesomely yummy wine:

Another wine encounter at a winery wasn't local at all, it came from New Zealand and tasted like grapefruit:

Overall, this was a nice gateway, with more pictures to come: windmills and all!