HTA-0626: Colby Smith — Holiday Season Feature

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Henry interviews Colby Smith about holiday season activities beyond shopping.

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Thank you, Janu. So what are you doing for the holiday seasons other than going shopping and

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wrapping your presents? How about enjoying the Bay Area? There's some fabulous opportunities and

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we have a few ideas for you that may not have been top of mind. We all know about, you know,

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the Christmas Free Union Square. Joining us to talk about this is Colby Smith. She is the head

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of the Concierge Alliance of Napa Valley or CANVAS as they call themselves. And Sonoma. And Sonoma.

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That's okay.

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And Sonoma.

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And basically, it's a bunch of people who really know what's going on in the whole Bay Area, okay?

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So thank you for coming in and sharing some of these ideas with us.

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First of all, let's talk about this beautiful horse-drawn carriage tour at Deloche.

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Well, Deloche is a wonderful winery.

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They are biodynamic, which is a very unusual way to farm.

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And very slowly, more and more people are doing that.

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But at Christmas time, they pull out this wonderful carriage and they give you a carriage ride through the vineyards while you're sipping wine and learning all about the winery and the wines. Boy, that's a real hardship, I imagine. So you can just go to just a Google Deloach Vineyards, D-E-L-O-A-C-H, for more details on that. Napa Valley Museum, there's something people don't talk about much. It's a very unknown hidden secret and it's a very wonderful little treasure.

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They have they have they're on the veterans home property and as you can see from the pictures they do wonderful seasonal things and they have a collection right now of dreams of Toyland that is absolutely extraordinary little vignettes set up with dolls and toys and beautiful paintings like the one you see. It's really extraordinary and well worth taking the time. It's in Yonville in Napa and by the way speaking of Yonville you I mean you've got

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to go see the whole Christmas display thing. You should see the lights there

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right now. Every single building is covered with lights. Now this is my pick.

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Blind Boys of Alabama performing a Christmas show. You bet. That's happening.

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It's at the Uptown Theater and I think it's on the 16th isn't it? The 17th.

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And this is my pick because it's Blind Boys of Alabama because these guys are

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the greatest gospel singers. They've been together for years and I just really

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love their stuff and then finally coming that is not the blind boys of Alabama

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actually folks that's another picture from Toyland looking at one of the

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little toy vignettes that are in the museum and then finally the holiday boat

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parade which takes place here in the city tell us about that yeah well it's a

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wonderful combination with the Embarcadero and the boats are all

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decorated and it's just magnificent going along the water and you know what

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just occurred to me is also in Calistoga in the Napa area we have a tractor

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parade Wow and you have never seen anything until you've seen a tractor

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parade but then of course the boats are equally as entertaining okay your website

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for people to check out a lot of this information well you can go to the

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conciergealliance.com and on that website is phone information or email

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information and feel free to call us and we'd love to point you in the right

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direction. Great thank you very much for joining us thanks for the great ideas.