Sonoma Trip-Day 2

Day 2 started with me checking in and attending conference (Update in Dermatology for Primary Care Physicians). I think Josh mainly watched football...definitely weird being from the East Coast and football starting in the morning!
After conference we headed to the town square of Sonoma to get some information/maps to decide what to do (besides the obvious of tasting wine!) and then grabbed a quick sandwich at Basque Boulangerie Café. It's a cute little sanwich/pastry/coffee shop and I had a sandwich called the Parisian-crusy french loaf, real sliced ham and swiss cheese.
Then we headed out to the Jack London State Park. Josh and I both love historical sites so thought this would be a cool way to spend the afternoon. After a quick drive from Sonoma, passing through the Glen Ellen Town Festival, we arrived at the Jack London State Park. Apparently his grave was here, as well as the ruins of a house he was building to live at his ranch. It was to be a gorgeous 4 story 15000 sq foot house but it burned down a month before they moved in. It was being rebuilt when he died. It was about half a mile hike from the parking lot to the ruins, so we set out. There was a sign at the beginning of the trail warning of mountain lions, which of course freaked Josh out!

Jack London's Grave
The Ruins of Wolf House...it would have been beautiful!

I particularly enjoyed just the hike and getting a closer look at the terrain. I have never been in the Northern California area other than city, so I saw a lot of new trees/bushes that I wanted to take pictures of. Most of my friends are professional photographers or could be, so please excuse my poor photography skills!

Josh looking for mountain lions (not really, haha!)
Then we went back to the hotel and got ready for dinner. We went to the girl & the fig. Definitely my favorite meal of the trip. We started out with a goat cheese sampler served with three goat cheese selections, fig cakes, apple slices, cherry chutney, candied nuts and bread. Then I had a grilled fig and arugula salad and Josh had a brie and ham dish. We finished it off with a brown butter bartlett pear tart with hazelnut chantilly cream and red currant compote. It was all very delicious. Then another relatively early evening.