The family has been celebrating the fourth of July holiday weekend with many fun activities. On Friday, we packed up a picnic and checked out the Latin jazz/mambo band concert at the National Gallery Sculpture Garden. Mambo is after all Evie's favorite dance, as she knows how to cha cha cha from her Classical Baby Dance DVD.
Evie was a little shy about dancing in front of the crowd, but did a couple of twists and twirls with the encouragement of Mommy. She also wanted to climb the pyramid sculpture in the background, although she says she just wanted a "closer look".
All smiles after sharing some cheese with Daddy. After the concert the family had our first taste of gelato and it was delicious!
Ellie slept through the concert in the shade, chill as could be.
On Saturday the family met Ba and Opa at Pearmund Cellars in Middleburg for a private barrel tasting. After a delicious BBQ lunch with sangria, the family headed inside to the barrel room to sample the wines. Evie was fascinated by watching the wine guy use a funnel thingee to take the wine out of the barrel. She also found that the barrels made good drums.
While Ellie was not tasting the wine, she had a dopey smile on her face all the same. Everyone surprisingly liked most of the wines we tried, and therefore were a little dopey ourselves at the end of the tasting.
Evie checks out the grapes with Ba and Opa and explains they are used for the chardonnay that the winery creates. Opa is particularly very happy with the wine - he sure bought a lot of it!
The four girls pose in the vineyard... Ellie had a good idea to take a nap - after this outing, the whole family needed it!
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