October 2

We have made it to Santa Rosa and staying here at the county fairgrounds. The weather here is great and everyone is enjoying the trip so far.  We are going to be spending the next 5 days here with with 4 days of bus trips and one that will be a free day.
Today we started the day at 8:15 boarding the bus.

Everyone on time and ready for a great day, with our first stop at the Schultz Museum.

 Some of our guest enjoying the Peanut characters.

 Our guide took on a tour of the Schultz Museum  and explained us the history of Charles Schultz.

 This tile wall is full of comic strips of Peanuts.

 Charlie Browns kite stuck in the tree.

This wall mural of Snoopy's life in the comic strip. It has been a great visit of the Charlies Schultz Museum.  Our next stop was the Canine Companions for Independents, they train dogs for every type of a disabilities.  They raise and train over 100 dogs every year.

 Here we are being told about how they work and train the dogs from pups to fully trained dogs.

  As you can tell Charles Schulz  was involved in this program also.  From here we headed towards Bodega Bay for lunch and a small tour of highway 1 along the coast of California.  After lunch we headed to the Korbel Champagne Cellars for a tour.

 We had a great tour on how this winery turned into the only place in America that makes the best Champagne.

 These are the barrels used in the first years of making the Champagne, now they use more modern methods.

After the tour we got to sample a few of the Champagne's they make.  Today was a great day and looking forward to our trip to Pier 39 in San Francisco.