Napa

The 2 week expedition started on Friday night when Remi and I scooted over to the West Coast to spend the weekend in Napa. Cali wines get a good wrap over here and we were excited to try some local produce. It’s definitely a different taste to the Australian wines but we enjoyed the drive and countryside – it was gorgeous to drive around and see the wineries. We got our little hire car and drove up north to start our fully day of wine appreciation. We started at the Napa Valley Welcome Center where we met the cutest & most helpful guide – Harry who’d be celebrating, at my best guess, a birthday in the 90s – who gave us wonderful recommendations for the rest of the day. The dinner spot (which Harry also recommended) was by far our favourite – with fresh, flavourful farm-to-table style food. We tried to sneak into a mud bath post dinner, but they were all full! ? So we’re saving it for next time.

Calaveras Big Tree State Park

Sunday saw us hop back in the car for a bit of a journey to the Calaveras Big Tree State Park to see the Giant Sequoia trees (which, for me, were way more impressive than Napa ?). They were incredibly majestic and thousands of years old. The air actually smelt sweet and we had the best weather ever.

Dreamforce 2019 #DF19

Monday was the beginning of #DF19 which was amazing and wild and exhausting all at the same time.It feels like an Apple Conference, but Dreamforce 2019 was the best.lineup. ever.There was way too much to write about so the #DF19 highlights include:

The gorgeous Japanese hotel we stayed at in Japan Town
Dinner with Janna & Archie at The House talking all thing work & weddings
Seeing Brett Taylor, Marc Benioff & Keith Block practice for their big Keynote presentation
Macklemore concert
Remi’s Financial Services keynote
Bumping into colleagues from all over the world on the streets of SF
Checking out the San Francisco Salesforce tower & the view from the top floor
Fleetwood Mac & Crowded House concert
Catching Obama and Amelia Clarke chat for their Fireside Chats