Who knew such pretty places were only 2 hours away?!

Yesterday a family friend retired* from the US Navy after 30 years of active service. His retirement party/ceremony was held at Wilson Creek Winery & Vineyard in Temecula.

*His official retirement date is October 1, 2013 so between now and then he's on an 80 day "vacation"

I didn't take many pictures because I didn't want to run my cell phone battery down, but now I'm wishing I would have taken more of the Winery itself as the location was very beautiful.

Here are some of the pics I did take on our way there and while we were there.

( cut for size and number of pics )

Being at the party gave me ideas for the 2nd part of (what was supposed to be) a quick H50 ficlet I started earlier. I hope to have it finished by Sunday night so that I can post it.

halp!

I need someone to beta something I've been working on. totally under 1,000 words. It should have been posted last night, but I got home too late.

I think I caught all my mistakes, but I've been reading over this so much, that I'm probably making more mistakes than fixing them.

The fic is part of my Life with Jacob McGarrett-Williams AU series. While they aren't mentioned in this particular fic, Nick Taylor and Freddie Hart never went bad and/died for the purpose of this series.

if anyone can look this over for me, here's the link (google docs) for where it's at.

I have another long day a head of me and hope to write the sequel to this today or tomorrow.