Wustfest

Here we are in New Braunfels.  We are staying at the same Rodeway Inn as last year.  We arrived at 4:30 and l learned that admission to Wurstfest is free on the opening night if we entered before 7.  We changed clothes and rushed to Landa park.  We arrived in plenty of time—along with 6,000 other people.  I picked up our tickets that I had ordered on line and proceeded to look for a place to sit.  There are 4 venues but not a seat in any of them.  Finally we replaced someone who was leaving and found 2 seats.  We were able to dance about 6 dances and had a bratwurst with sauerkraut.  We agreed it was the worst wurst we had ever had.  We didn’t stay late and returned to the motel.  I had set our fern and gift plant out to get sun, but it was taken a couple of days hence. 

Saturday Tom and Luann came to join us in the afternoon.  During the morning we did laundry and ate the leftover sandwiches from the Jack in the Box yesterday.  When they arrived, we enjoyed some beer and snacks before going downtown for dinner at the Friesenhaus.  We shared our jaegerschnitzle and then went to the Wurstfest.  The crowd was even larger than last night.  We did have some beer and danced a bit more.  We could never dance at the same time because people were looking for chairs.  Before leaving we went to the new dancing venue.  It is really plush compared to the others.  It even has padded chairs!  We danced there too before going to the motel. 

Daylight savings time ended early this morning, and we enjoyed the extra hour of sleep.  We also enjoyed the hot waffle breakfast before going to church.  While eating, we met some people from Decatur, IN near where we used to live.  They claimed to be Lutheran but weren’t in going to worship with us.  We were blessed by the message and Holy Communion.  Jones’ daughter and family met them at the Fest, so we went alone but met them there.  We spent the entire afternoon sitting at wooden picnic tables.  We listened to 2 great performers—the Sauerkrauts and Alex Meixner band—but were sore before finally leaving around 6.  We plan to leave tomorrow afternoon and drive to San Antonio to spend a couple of days with Tom and Luann.  We just laid around the motel room and watched Sunday night football.