Taking a nap in Napa

Hello from wine country!

It is 6:40 in the land of the grapes (because you know I'm on east coast time and was in bed at like 9 p.m. here last night and woke up at 5!) and so far I am not missing another incentive trip.

So each quarter Pure Romance offers incentive trips for consultants based on sales & number of new consultants who sign up under you. I won the 2nd quarter trip for 3 days in Napa Valley. We are crashing at the Meritage Resort which has a really cool cave spa (which unfortunately I will not be visiting :( so sad). Kendra is my roomie and she is one of the top girls in the company and I am so picking her brain for sales - she's at like $80K for the year!!! I wanna be her.

We arrived yesterday and the car service brought about 8 of us from Sacramento airport - oh FYI Louisville airport is bigger than Sacramento - who thunk it. My first impression was damn it's dry - does it ever rain here??? I guess not since California has wild fires like every week. I was expecting lush greenery surround the rocky hill side adorned with grapes - nope. More dust than a desert. But please do not take that as a complaint...it is still gorgeous.

After checking into the Meritage, Kendra & I toured our room - which is bigger than my apartment. Oh complimentary bottle of wine in our room :) Seriously there are 6 doors to the bathroom. A separate room for the jacuzzi tub, the toilet, and the shower (which is the size of my bathroom). We were expecting like 10 shower heads, but no such luck. We then walked the grounds which remind me of the Tuscany country side - well what I imagine the Tuscany countryside to look like anyway. Lots of earth tones, wood, bronze, lush green plants everywhere. I'll try to get pictures up today. Gazebos and statues are mixed in with lush plant life and surround the pool. Reminds me of this movie where this woman buys this villa in Tuscany and meets this hot guy there... I forget the name. After chillaxin by the pool we got ready for our photo shoot.

Pure Romance always does photos on all it's trips so we gathered with Chris & Patty (president & CEO) and put on our best smile. Afterwards we journeyed to the dining room where we our glasses stayed full with choice of wine. Drinking and mingling outside by the outdoor fire, we then got our grub on. My choice, Caprece salad, Ratatouille, and something that was really good that resembled flan for desert. All organic vegies of course. As I enjoyed my $24 tomato & mozzarella salad I realized I was seated to the right of Patty, our founder, and to the left of one of the top consultants, and across from another top consultant and thought to myself, "I could get use to this"

As most of us were on east coast time, we crashed early. But we have promises of somoers outside tonight. Today we are touring 4 wineries & will indulge in more fab food. Oh tomorrow - yoga in the vineyards!!! Can't wait.

Have I said I love my job? More to come....