My 1st kayaking experience

I never try kayaking until I was in Austin.

There is this popular Zilker Park linkup with Town Lake just few minutes drive from our place.

Was quite nervous because I never tried and I am damn lousy in swimming and might be drowned.... -__-

Lucky I tried, and that was a whole new exciting experience opening up a whole new page in the book of my life.

This is where we rented our equipment @ Zilker Park..

There are a lot of people gathered here as well for kayaking as this is a popular activity during summer.

This is the starting point of our kayaking journey... see? the family of geese!!

Kayaking surrounded by a crowd of geese... and crystal clear blue river...

Jeezzz... that's my 1st time =)

We stepped into the very cool shallow water until above the knee, jump up to our kayak, and excitedly, our journey begins!!

We tried paddle the kayak heading to Town Lake to downtown Austin...
We don't really know how to paddle it and our kayak always went to the wrong direction or beign swept to the sides....

It took us quite awhile to know how to make the kayak heads to the right directions!!

Is not easy to balance ourselves in the kayak.. my heart beating in fear that few times we were nearly off balance and collapsed... -___-"'



We finally get the hang out of it and slowly heading out...

Wow... I never knew it would be so beautiful....This is indeed fascinating...

And hey!!! Is so cute watching the geese family swimming across in one row, and so near I can touch them...

I looked down on the cool water... and is very clean and clear...

And gosh!!!! I saw this little baby turtle swimming beside my kayak!!! Wow...!!!
See that?!

Geezzz.... This is mesmerizing...so stunningly gorgeous...you have to come and see it for yourself...

Ooohhh.....so many tortoises realxing on the stones bathing the warm sunny summer afternoon...

Holy cow!! What a picture!!

This is the Town Lake overlooking downtown Austin on a summer afternoon kayaking in the middle of nowhere...

Hehee... even the geese couple come out dating together with us kayaking.. =)
This is such a wonderful summer afternoon, experiencing the best-est nature!

Panaromic view of Town Lake and the prosper of Austin.. I just love it..

Oppsss.....some lady too thrilled that she stood on top of her board and paddled her way thru with only her bikini on...

Not something we usually see.... cheerz to her courage...!

And see the bridge on top..... a naked guy standing on the side, trying to perform a dive into the cool water...

Is the summer too hot that you need to be naked?!

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...

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Heheheheeeeee...