We left San Francisco on Monday morning, stopping for lunch in Burlingame before heading up to Santa Rosa for the night. Our Airbnb was so dreamy--we had a private cottage in the middle of this lovely couple's garden backyard.

Yesterday was jam-packed with wine adventures, including an absolutely wonderful visit to the La Crema Vineyard, where we were treated to a tour and tasting with Elizabeth, La Crema's wonderful head winemaker. Courtney and I had a meeting after that and our sweet husbands waited for us before we all headed to the amazing loft where we'll be staying, cooking, and shooting until Friday morning. This trip has been such a dream!

Here's another list of places we went and things we ate:

• Lunch at Barracuda in Burlingame (but only because Isobune was closed).
• Dinner and drinks at Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa.
• Coffee at Flying Goat.
• Breakfast at Midtown Cafe.
• Lunch at In-N-Out Burger, obviously.
• Wine tastings in Healdsburg with La Crema.
• Dinner and drinks at Bear Republic Brewing Company.

Today we have our work cut out for us--with a few more meetings, lots of grocery shopping, and quite a bit of cooking and shooting. I'm so excited to share everything we've been working on with you soon! 

Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a great long weekend--we got home from an amazing vacation with friends in Litchfield Beach, South Carolina yesterday afternoon and spent most of our Monday cooking, napping, and cuddling our super sleepy puppy (Ender went to the kennel and was wiped out from playing all weekend).

I posted the majority of these shots on Instagram over the weekend, but I can't get over how blue the sky and water was, so here I am grouping them all together again. This is what life in my world has looked like over the past few days:

1. Day one on the beach. We drank wine and soaked up the sun and I actually got in the ocean for the first time since I can remember. 
2. I took a solo, barefoot walk on the beach Sunday morning and it was exactly what I needed. For so long, I've always said that I'm not much of a beach person, but I'm starting to realize that that's not true at all. (I just like my sunscreen.)
3. Gorgeous trees in the neighborhood. South Carolina is pretty dreamy.
4. Seriously such a perfect view for a few relaxing days.

What has life in your world looked like lately? 

Life Lately According to Instagram is a once(ish)-monthly feature in which I showcase my favorite Instagram shots. You can follow along with me in real time if you'd like--I'm @mflynnpete.

After a jam-packed first day exploring Boston, we spent a more laid-back Saturday drinking coffee and shooting photos for The Eighty Twenty Magazine at my friend Jenna's house with Katie, Anna, Lindsay, and Julie. Volume one is coming out in January and I'm so, so excited about it (but more on that later). Other than Jenna and her husband, I was meeting everyone there for the first time that day.

Even after years of blogging, it still gets me all emotional to think about the connections we make with people we have so much in common with; who we otherwise would have gone through life just not knowing. It was crazy and awesome to finally cross paths with these women in the flesh and work on something together.

On Sunday, we had a few hours to kill before it was time to head to the airport, so we went to Sinatra Brunch at Lucky's Lounge before walking to North End to explore a bit. There was even a Christmas parade that we watched for a while! North End has so much personality and so much of it reminded me of the Italian side of my family. Rob picked up a chocolate chip cannoli (of which I said I would take a bite, but then ended up eating half) at Mike's Pastry and then we sat down for coffee at Thinking Cup.

Rob and I had such a great time exploring a new city together. Hoping to do a lot more of it in 2015! What are some of your favorite Boston spots? I'm already compiling a list for our next visit!