ExpoCAV

We told the girls we were going to ExpoCAV to taste some wine and this was their reaction.

Just kidding.  

They had no idea what ExpoCAV was even after we explained it to them.  They just knew that we promised them dinner in a restaurant that had a play space.  Maybe that is what the jumping for joy was all about... 

This was the second year we attended the expo.  We go because we like wine (and we drink a bit of it in this house).  And they sell liquor (Rum, Champagne and Pisco) and wine at up to 60% off retail prices.  Last year we bought about a 6 months supply.  Rather, we thought we bought a 6 month supply and yet 2 months later we ran dry.  In all fairness, we did throw a big party to celebrate my 40th about 6 weeks after stocking up.  Maybe we should have figured that into our purchase.

Either way, it was time to head back and re-supply.  

Things were a lot more crowded this year. 

There are about, oh, 100x more people here this time around.  Last year, this hall was empty save us and the couple we were with.

 As we tried to work our way through the crowds to find a place where we could stand with the kids, we realized that we were not up for fighting our way to the front to get our glass filled, fight our way out so that we could actually enjoy it, and then doing it all over again.  With kids in tow.  Especially since we have done our fair share of wine tasting here in Chile (and these were all Chilean vineyards) and probably would be fighting to taste something we had already tasted.  We decided to head for the back, the far reaches of the event, where they were sampling the Rum.  Yep, B and I went to a wine event and only drank Rum.  But you already knew we were those people, right?

The girls had some space to play...

 And do a tasting of their own.  

 Don't go calling Social Services on me just yet.  We snatched a couple of plastic tasting glasses from one of the booths and poured them some apple water...I think ahead sometimes (only sometimes).  They sat on the steps and quenched the thirst they worked up by running and jumping for the past half an hour.  

We had a small mishap with Stinkerbell and her glass just after these were taken.  She wanted to show Papa how she could hold the glass around her mouth, without hands, just by sucking in.  As Papa turns around to see, he accidentally knocked the bottom of her glass, pushing it into her face as she was sucking in.  It was hard enough that the plastic rim of the glass cut her face on both sides of her chin.  She was such a trooper though.  Only a few tears and once we got her cleaned up and her Batman bandaids on her face, she was as good as new.

But we figured it was time to head out and get some dinner since it was just getting more and more crowded.  We stopped by the store to get our wine and made another snap decision that there was no sale worth waiting in those lines for.  There must have been at least an hour wait - in all four lines.

I guess I will just have to stock up some other time.