Day 2: Tuesday, October 18th

We awoke in our cottage to discover breakfast from Bouchon Bakery tucked in a basket on our front door. (Like the beginning of a fairy tale! Ha!) I wish I had a basket elf that delivered breakfast to my apartment every morning! The pastries were delicious--and made me want to try Bouchon.

Another amazing discovery was the heated tile floor in the bathroom. Yes, I would sleep on a cot for a year and wear flip flops everyday for two years if it meant I could get one of those installed in my house!
Did I mention another elf comes by sometime during the afternoon and leaves a basket of smores on the porch? And that you can see almost EVERY star in the sky from the comfort of your very own fire pit lounge?

I could go on, and I do--on Yelp:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-cottages-of-napa-valley-napa#hrid:NM9NVo2-c3rlTaYPwl6ewQ


Lunch was at Pacific Blues--nice, involving carnitas nachos, outdoors, in that Yountville place again:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/pacific-blues-cafe-yountville#hrid:JPrSXmKXGO-4nDHOJfC1Xg

We then had the strength to venture out to Hess--a suggestion from a friend at work. The art collection was fantastic and powerful--all modern/contemporary with installations by Andy Goldsworthy (weird melting mounds and a dizzy circular wall (literally, he made a wall) sculpture entirely out of thorns that kind of blows your mind engineering-wise. The wine was eh. We were kind of entertained by a guy who insisted on telling us every place we needed to go, and then equally entertained by the man pouring wine who contradicted everything that guy said:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-hess-collection-winery-napa#hrid:WgP16VVDgPIrPJUstoYBHA
After a short siesta, we went back to Yountville (yes, again!) and had dinner at Redd, because apparently it takes 8 years and half your savings (and maybe your first born?) to get into French Laundry.
Redd was delicious and the setting very sleek and calming. Here's the menu (with stars next to the dishes we had) Of course the pork belly was delicious (I have a theory that pretty soon there will be no more pigs left on earth, that's how much pork has bewitched all us pork-eating cultures:( The lamb bolognese was also delicious.

Here's the link to the brief yelp review. I waited so long to write it it's hard to remember all the details...that also might be a by-product of lots of wine, so there's a picture below of one of the dishes (again, don't remember which):
http://www.yelp.com/biz/redd-yountville#hrid:jSsi9UrFrkCzQBKXjpSW6A

Here's the map of our trip on Day 2: