Whew…thatsalotta wine! Together with Mr. & Mrs. CBJ and a friend of theirs, we hit 14 of the 21 Sante locations: Chapters, Dinah’s Cupboard, Birks, Jeanne Lottie, Lovecraft, Paper Things, Pepper Mill, Simone Marie, The Cookbook Store, The Kitchen and Glass Place (I didn’t forget those last two names; that’s really what they’re called), Thomas Kinkade Gallery, Travel Choice, Whole Foods and Williams-Sonoma.

What did I learn? Well:

• I like pinot noir more than I thought.
• If you stand still long enough in Yorkville, you’ll see a couple of famous people. Bob Hoskins walked by us near Whole Foods, and I think Jamie-Lynn DiScala (Meadow Soprano) walked by us too.
• I like dessert wine more than I thought
• If you hang around a wine festival long enough, you’ll run into the Modern Mod
• Belgian chocolate + ice wine = DROOOOOOOOL
• Always hit the jewellery store early on. If we’d visited Birks at the end of the trip, after several glasses of wine, I might well have walked out with one of these bad boys.
• Thomas Kinkade’s paintings are kind of freaky, especially when they turn the lights down
• If you stand still long enough in Yorkville, you’ll see a procession of models. As we were standing there 7 goregous young girls in designer clothes walked by, trailing after some guy with a camera. It was a bit surreal.

It was an entertaining enough way to spend the day, even if the crowds did get a little out of hand toward 5:00. But we were happy to get home, relax and get some food in our bellies. Plan for tonight: relax. No booze, just junk food and some movies. And (sigh) accounting.