Sweet memory of Grape Stomp Off @ Vintage Oaks, Texas

So that was Summer time last year in Texas...

We went to the Vintage Oaks winery for our first time ever Grape Stomp Off ..we don't really know what to expect... but we were told it will be fun!

Ready with our GPS, together with a group of frenz, we drove to Vintage oaks, a serene suburb 2hours drive from Austin, with astonishingly beautiful bangalows...

Waoooo.... My dream house........so elegant..! how I wish..

Woo...would I be able to earn myself a bangalow like this..?! It must cost a fortune!!!

My..my... I already start to fall in love with this place..!!!

Finally we arrived at Vintage Oaks winery..... enchanting castle like building.

This is fastinating... I like this place.. =)

Let's go in and have a look at this great place and to our first experience of Grape Stomp Off!

Wow... this is 5-star treat for the event! There are servings of high quality red and white grape wine, cheese and biscuits... All proudly Texas home grown!

Texas local red wine is undoubtly one of the best u can have... I just love it!

Had a few glasses before we started the event... hehehee...

See?

This is the equipment for Grape Stomp Off... we have a big wooden bucket, 2 bottles and a pail of quality local grown red grapes =)

The red grapes look so mouth-watering that I feel so guilty have to step on them with my bare feet later.. -____-

This is the place for Grape Stomp Off where we have 10 sets of equipments for 10 groups competing each time.. 1 group 2 persons, usually comes in couple or family siblings and frenz..

Beeppp!!!!!! The competition starts!

Squash..squash... squash.......squeeeeeze harder..

All the competitors are stepping hard and diligently on the grapes while their counterparts keep on brushing the grape juices down the pipe into the bottles..

Everyone is very very excited... all the shoutings and cheerings for their groups... all the sweating and grape juice splashing all over....!!!

Hahahaaa.... been a long time since we have so much fun!!!!

IT WAS FUN!!! =)

A closer look at how we squeezzze the grapes with our smelly feet....

Opsss.... not so appetizing, rite? ;p

TA DAHHH!!!!

This is our 'feet made' red wine product...... hehehee

*so proud like that*

**Ahemmmm**

This is how you will act like when you have too many glassess one shot...

Similar or not?

Heheheheeeeee...

My baby papaya trees

That day, we stopped at a Malay fruit stall beside the road, and bought a half papaya already cut and wrapped nicely. And we bargained the half papaya from RM3 to RM1..... heheheeheheeeee...

As I am cutting up the papaya into small pieces, I realize the seeds are really a lot....and suddenly an idea popped out, why not we try to plant the seeds in the backyard and see if it will grow?? =)

So I kept all the seeds..

We cleaned one small part of the backyard, threw away all the lallang and grass... then we spread all the seeds in rectangular area we cleaned up and digged up. Then we buried the seeds beneath, sprinkled some water...

After around 1 week time, we went back to the backyard to take a look....

WaLaaa!!!!!!! the seeds have grown into baby papaya leaves!!!!!! Wowww.... that's spectacular!!!! There are so many of them in small groups together...!!

My baby papaya leaves look so cuteeee....

See??? there are so many of them!!!

Woww..... I am so happy that my papaya seeds are actually growing.... so exciting..=)

Every evening I will go to my backyard and take a look, sprinkle some water and clean up the place... I can see that they are growing up rapidly!!!!

Now I can imagine when my papaya trees grow up, then I will have many papaya trees in my backyard and I will have a lot of free papaya to eat!!! Hahahahaaa...

Look at my future papaya tree......

Anyone wants home grown papaya???? =)