Labor Day 09

We got up early so we could get some breakfast in Sausalito before the Sausalito Art Festival started.
We found this place after a bit of looking.

They had a wait to be seated line, but we found 3 seats at the counter and watched as they produced some wonderful breakfast food. In addition to the great hash browns they also made French toast by cooking a dripping chunk of bread on the grill and then deep frying it.

Then on to the Festival. Being billed as the number one Art Festival in America we thought we might be getting into something, and we did. The show was large and well juried. The artists who came from all over the US, (even Bloomington) had a wide range of medium and expression. There was an interesting ripple in the crowd due to the focus on the anniversary of Woodstock. This picture is of the main stage, where they had some headliners getting ready to appear, we did not stay that long.

The first thing we saw after we got through the gates was a gentleman named Seamus with a wonderful accent who offered us Mimosa's to get going with our day, but we had had such a good start at Fred's that we declined. The secondary stage got to rockin a little later with a swing group out of Petaluma.

The organization was flawless, partially due to the fact that this was the last day of a 4 day run, but probably mostly due to the staffers. These people were gathered in a staging area, and I thought it interesting that the staff shirts had their tasks in large letters on the back of the shirt.
By the time we left around noon, the place was so crowded it was hard to walk around, and driving out of town was the best direction to be going.

After that we headed up to Sonoma to check out the cheese and visit some wineries. Sonoma was exteremely busy so we headed up a back road to Glen Ellen and visited the Benziger winery. We left there and headed home through the Napa valley after climbing and descending the area that separates the Napa and Sonoma valleys on a very twisty two lane road.

We finished the day after discovering that Rickeysrestaurant‎ was closed at Maya Palenque.
Good friends and good food.