Make A Wish Poker Tournament Is This Saturday!

Not sure what to do on Saturday during the day? Then come on down to Morton's and play Texas Holdem' with us. It is a charity tournament and the buy in is $250 with proceeds going to the Make a Wish Foundation.

Not only does the $250 get you a seat at the table, but it also gets you all you can eat of the wonderful Morton's cuisine and two adult beverages of your choosing. Prizes include a World Poker Tour Experience, a seat at a World Series of Poker satellite event, two hours of free casino play for you and nine of your friends, as well as numerous one of a kind of prizes courtesy of our Sacramento River Cats.

Speaking of the Cats, several of their players are expected to attend as is our own hero in residence Donte Greene, as well as last years champ, and voice of the Monarchs, Jason Ross.

Concerned about the buy in being a little to much? Well, check out our friends blog over at Twin Soup where you can win one of two free entries.

Hope to see you Saturday morning!

Walk 'n Rock For Kids

The first annual Rock 'n Walk for Kids turned out to be a spectacular event and we at Luxury Limousines are happy that we could be a small part of it.

From the walk in the morning to the final farewells by Journey (pictured here with some of their children who performed with the band on their final encore), everything went perfectly. I would like to thank Pat McClain who along with Gary Lardy conceived and founded Hope Productions, and especially Debbie Gabelich, the CEO of Hope without whom the day would not have happened.

Hope Productions Presents Journey tomorrow night

Our cars will be out in force tomorrow night as we are providing transportation services to both Journey and the major sponsors of the event. Lisa Campodonico our Director of Marketing just left Raley Field and reports that the transformation from a baseball diamond to a concert venue is well under way.

For those of you who may be on the fence about going (and especially for those of you who already are), here is a short little video featuring Neal Schon - watch closely and you can see the influence Carlos Santana obviously had on the 15 year old Neil when he first joined Santana.

Great Time At Raley Field

The winner of our Office Day Getaway Promotion with the River Cats was Kenny S. of Intel.

Yesterday, Kenny and 19 of his co-workers spent their afternoon enjoying near perfect weather at Raley Field. Not only did they get to see the Cats win, but they also saw one of the rarest events in all baseball - a triple steal off a right handed pitcher!

To find out how you could be the next winner of Office Getaway on June 24th, follow this link to the River Cats website.

Stars In Our Cars

Over the weekend, we had the privilege of providing transportation services to both John Michael Montgomery and Jamie O'Neal. Both were in town for the Golf and Guitars event at Haggin Oaks which benefited Hope Productions.

This weekend will be even bigger, as we our the official transportation company of Hope Productions' Walk and Rock for Kids featuring Journey. There are still tickets available for this once in lifetime concert at Raley Field.

Barrel Tasting

One of our stops yesterday in Napa was for the annual Barrel Tasting of s at Nickel and Nickel. Because Nickel and Nickel produce only single vineyard cabs, we actually wound up trying 13 different Cabernet varieties.

Although my palate is not very sophisticated, I was able to taste how different Napa Valley locations and soils affect the flavors of the wines.

In this picture the ladies in my group are sampling one of our favorites, from the John C. Sullenger Vineyard. The vineyard takes its name from the first settler of farm that is now the home vineyard for Nickel and Nickel. The soil in this vineyard is from an alluvial fan, and is mostly clay loam. All of us preferred this particular wine over some of the others which came from soils that contained more rock.

Of course, your taste may be completely different - the only way to know for sure is to get out there and taste!

Training Day!

In another sign that the recession is easing, we have hired our first new chauffeur in almost a year. Although he wont be having any "wheel time" today, he is going to be experiencing a lot. Beginning about now, he is helping to stock the car with drinks, ice and the other little necessities that are needed for a day on the road.

At about 7:30, he will be heading out to my house where he will pick us up for a day in Napa. Although he doesn't know it yet, I will be throwing him his first curve ball of the day, when I will ask him to map a route to unexpected pickup via our on board GPS System.


From there we will head to the Napa Valley so he can get familiar with both Highway 29 as well as the Silverado Trail. We will also show him some of our favorite wienies (this just happens to be Nickel and Nickel's barrel tasting day - gosh what a coincidence - wonder how that happened?). We will also point out great places to pick up a quick lunch (Oakville Grocery & Bouchon are two of our favorites).

After lunch we will also visit at least two more wineries (probably Charles Krug so he can meet our friend Ralph) and then to Stags Leap Wine Cellars so he can learn the difference between this wonderful winery and a similarly named, but quite frankly not as good winery located right down the street.

We will then head back to Sacramento, where he will learn how to do a quick "turn around", as he will be responsible for getting the car ready for another ride later tonight.

It wont be an easy day for him, but once it is done, he will be one step closer to learning how doing the little things as a chauffeur, makes our customers want to come back.