German American Fest

One of our favorite summer festivals was this past weekend - the German American fest. Where you go to have beer and pretzels for dinner. Laugh at the few who come in costumes. Then head over to the midway to waste your money on rigged games. This year our neice and nephew (H&H) were in town and came with us. After several games of "shoot the water in the hole", "catch a frog with the magnet stick" (which is much harder than anyone lets on) and "roll the ball up the table into a hole" each kid had enough stuffed animals and mardi gra beads. You could tell because the adults were holding them all. Henry & Helen were tired and ready to go home. C was too. Nick and I were still having fun. So we said our goodbyes. Then one more game of "water in the hole" and another stuffed snake, 2 more pretzels and a beer and THEN we were finally ready to call it a night. We wandered out of the midway to find the festival in full gear. Definitely time for the parents with kids to head home. The 1/2 mile home was a full force game of "2 snacks chasing the frog". I can only imagine what those walking their dogs must have been thinking seeing a family of three tearing down the street. The dad first with a stuffed frog. The kid and wife behind him with stuffed snakes screaming "gonna get you! gonna get you! ssssss! sssssssssssss!"