On a beautiful Saturday morning the Fearless Foursome ventures out...
To the wild forest?
To the deep ocean?
To the high mountain?
Sort of.....
Nancy, Julienne, Jo, Grandma G
Into town for the Mount Angel Oktoberfest.....
Oregon
50th year celebration
"Hey...wait....I wanna go too"
(Just kidding, not me)
accordion player and yodeler..
Glockenspiel..(clock)....plays music on the hour
as life sized figures rotate....
Lunch at Glockenspiel Restaurant....
Rheinphalz Klopes mit Apfel/
(beef and pork meatballs)...
sweet sour red cabbage
creamed cucumbers
Spaetzle....potato/flour noodles
(I remember my Aunt Emma baking a mashed potato and flour mixture/ate them covered in buttermilk...a favorite)
Never found the mit apfel/apple
Singing Happy Birthday in operatic German
It's a viener dog mit rider
Let's hops to it..... the crop grown here...
good for the beer production....
Excuse me....this is MY blog.....
MUCH BETTER.....
Is half of Oregon here???
after some hand dipped ice cream....
Need to find a polka partner.....
How to make a senior fellow happy.......
How to make a senior lady happy......
No dance....just a very quick picture...
Next day at home I observed his name is......Louie, from California
We could have danced our years away....
(wife chuckling in background)
Randy from North Dakota,
moved here 13 years ago,
Kindly agreed to dance the
Beer Barrel Polka with me...
(Nicely color coordinated)
Why dancing in the street?
There was a $10 cover charge to get into the event hall.
We enjoyed by watching and listening through the open window....
lovely flowers
Old time church....
Majestic Oregon Evergreen
Found a dragonfly for my hobbit garden
Time to board the correct wagon for ride back to the car. Gram G got us on the wrong wagon at the blacksmith shop....had a short ride around a few blocks and back to the blacksmith shop. (FYI....don't EVER go hiking in the forest with her as guide...even if she claims she know where she is going.) Only a 60 mile drive home after a wonderful, fun day at Mount Angel Oktoberfest. (I want to go back to Mount Angel sometime to enjoy its atmosphere without all the crowds.)
Got home about 7:45. A full day for us senior ladies after starting 9 AM with water aerobics. I slept really well that night.
Mt. Hood with fresh snow cover
This has been a good "Fearless Foursome" day in the life of Grandma G.
"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."
(Proverbs 17:17)
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