Ding Dong, the bells are ringing!

Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. This is when we dust off the boxes and take out the old ornaments, each wrapped carefully the year before. Memories come flooding in, kids handprints, first Christmas, homemade Christmas Tree Angels.

It's the time of giving. Yes, we give all year, but during this season, we step it up. More money for church, the Bell Ringers, people in need. We give anonymously because we know it's more about the gift, and less about us. It feels good!

(I had to include the above picture- after all, they weren't allowed to ring their bells in front of a certain barber shop. I love that they were creative with this and waved pictures of bells!)

Families playing together make the best memories of all..

..the sunsets this time of
year can be amazing!

Segway Napa donates to many fundraisers. If you see a gift certificate at
one of these, you can get a pretty good deal. A recent one was a Yountville Wine & Cheese tour for 2. They bought it for $75. Normal price would be $180! These do expire as they are a donation.

What does not expire are Gift Certificates that are purchased directly from us. So you needn't worry if your loved one doesn't use it right away. They can wait until Spring, or Fall- whenever they choose! Our Seasonal special is Buy One Tour, get One 1/2 Off. It's a great deal and makes a great present if you want to save it for later. Judging by how many people have bought one this
month -it's a hot ticket item! :)
http://www.segwaynapa.com/

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!
Cheer!
Gale
Segway Napa

April/May Blog

April/May Blog











April showers bring May flowers- so the rhyme goes. In Napa, April was full of showers! May continued with rain during the first week. This is ok for the vines. Speaking of vines = we are now in what is termed Bud Break.

Various levels of budding going on around the valley. (aren't those tiny grapes just too cute! click on the picture to see a bigger view, just remember to click you back button or you'll close out the blog.)









After the mustard and fava were plowed under, beautiful lupin dotted the hills and is absolutely gorgeous! Right now the purple lupin has given way to the yellow, but I don't have a picture of that - - yet!


Our second Concierge Day was a huge success. Thank-you! to all who participated. We glided around the wetlands trail by the Napa River - learned what the bums Bivouac was, and saw the 6th largest solar panel in the US (well, it was 6th when it was built!)
Next one will be in Yountville.










May is a beautiful month to segway in Napa Valley- with all the rain we've had, our hills will stay green at least until the end of the month. Unless we get another crazy hot spell like we did in April- 103 reported in some spots of the Napa Valley.

EXTREME SEGWAY - We had our first qualifying Mount St. Helena tour. Yeah! A recently engaged couple (congrats to S & T!) braved the mountain together - and an old farmer. Ok, well, the old farmer was my dad - but you should've seen how excited he was that someone finally was going up, he's been waiting since December.



Small Lot Wine Tours, one of our sponsors, is undergoing some remodeling. They will now be called, Small Lots, Big Wines - your key to boutique wineries. Looks like a good change - they will start to offer guided tours to the boutique wineries - guess they got a lot of requests for those. Anyway, we highly recommend going to their website and signing up for their newsletter http://smalllotsbigwines.com . They have done a tremendous amount of research into the smaller wineries in the Napa Valley - in order to be on the site, the winery has to be 10,000 cases or less! Definitely worth checking out.

Another new sponsor - please welcome Shelleys-Style.com - Shelley is a local artist with many talents. She sells her tiles at Robert Mondavi Winery, and hopefully soon some other places.