Each fall a little farm near our village has a nice festival they call Hoffest. The festival mainly centers around pumpkins, or Kürbis in German. They have truck loads of pumpkins and gourds of all sizes and varieties there to buy. They have pumpkin wine, pumpkin bread, pumpkin jellies and spreads, pumpkin seeds and the most delicious pumpkin soup I've ever tasted. For the festival they have several craftsman and vendors selling their handmade goods and foods, that part is always fun to walk through.
This year the weather was not very nice to us, it was maybe 51 degrees out and drizzling rain, but we still had a good time. We mostly go for the food anyway, it's always so hard to decide what to eat. We ended up with flammkuchen, bratwurst, corn on the cob, pumpkin soup and neuer wein (translates to "new wine" and is a special wine available in the fall season). We were pretty stuffed! Colin liked checking out the pumpkins and playing in the huge hay pile with the other little kids.
All the rain made the field where people were parking pretty yucky. Depending on how cars were parked some of them were going to have an interesting time getting out of there. We drove the Jeep today so getting out was not a problem for us. As we were leaving we noticed a Ford Explorer that was stuck and having trouble. Their wheels wouldn't get enough traction on the mud and wet grass to back up and their wheels were just spinning. Shelby jumped at the chance to come to their rescue and actually put the Jeep to good use. He got to hook up the cable and pull them out with the winch while all the Germans (and some Americans) watched in awe. Funny thing is the Explorer had a big ugly Tennessee T sticker on the back of it, I'm sure the guy was less than thrilled a Gator had to fish him out of the mud. Shelby probably could have sat in that field and made a fortune pulling cars out all afternoon. Good day!
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