So this entry is a couple of weeks late, but I still have to share the occurrences of Mother’s Day day. 

I headed out early morning to Temecula with my Mama.  Technically to Sun City to meet with my aunt and cousins first.  Arrived, had a crepe with raspberry sauce, loaded my mom, aunt, and 3 cousins into my truck and was off to the wineries.  It was damn cold that day, but the sun was nice and bright.  Anyway, we only hit two spots.  Ended up staying at the second one because they had a live sax player and a petting zoo - how appropriate for me. 

We scoped the place out, took some pics, petted some animals, watched some ducks, looked at flowers and so forth.  We secured a table with enough chairs and went inside to purchase some vino.  Got 3 bottles of wine and one of champagne - 3 of the six chicks finished 2 out of 3 bottles (the other three are not old enough to drink, though being the Mexicans we are, we did offer the 17 year old a sip or two - she declined). 

While sitting, drinking and eating snacks that we brought along, we noticed that the petting zoo belonged to a family.  There was a little boy who was walking around holding this somewhat large lizard.  He came near us and I had to call him over to investigate that critter he was so nonchalantly grasping in his arms.  I asked what it was.  He told me it was a Blue Tongued Skink.  Sooooooo, I asked if I could hold it.  Harrison ( I later found out his name) said yes and handed me the Skink.  As soon as I held that Blue Tongued lizard, it PEED on my lap.  Of course, I was too into my conversation with Harrison that I didn’t notice what was happening until my family was laughing and screaming in disgust.  HA!  A stream kept flowing from him as I tried to move him away from my person.  No use in that now; my jeans were soaked with Skink pee.  I turned to Harrison and said, “He peed on me!”. He responded with a chuckle.  It was the most perfect response from a child that belongs to a family of animal lovers. I gave “Shorty” (the Skink’s name) back to Harrison and took a shot of the two inseparables before they walked off together. 

After, my jeans dried off and we finished the 2nd bottle, we sponged in the Sun a bit more and left the wineries to go back to my aunts house.  We had a nice homemade dinner, I took a nap, and when 8 o’clock rolled around we drove back to L.A. with funny flashbacks of wine, Blue Tongued Skinks and a blue eyed chuckling boy. 

Gotta go back for more Temecula wine, hold the pee. 

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