Long Weekend

Labor Day Weekend

Saturday was one of my favorite wine festivals of the year, the Mittelmosel Weinfest in Bernkastel Kues. It has lots of delicious German festival food, lots of music, lots of wine and fireworks. We took a bunch of Shelby's NCO Academy classmates and our friend Lina too. It was fun and much less eventful than last year's fiasco! I made sure to see the fireworks this year and we got good seats and they were definitely worth it. We ate a lot of junk and sampled a lot of tasty wine, what more could you ask for?

Sunday morning after picking Colin up from the babysitter we went to a Medieval Festival in a village nearby. It is held at Burg Gräfenstein, which is castle ruins in the town of Merzalben. There were all kinds of people dressed up in the medieval clothes and you could buy all kinds of things related to the time. Lots of handwork demonstrations were going on, puppet shows for the kids, people reenacting scenes, music, and jesters entertaining the crowds. We ate lunch and wandered around for a while. Colin got a sword with his name burned on it that he thought was super cool.

After the medieval fest we headed over to the corn maze which just opened Sunday. We took Colin there last year to run though and later in the year this same place holds a huge fall festival that is my favorite thing to do in the fall. We head over to the farmhouse shop at least once a week to buy the fresh picked corn on the cob that they sell there. Colin first spotted the cows in the pasture by the parking area, so we had to go visit the cows first. Then we did the corn maze where he ran, and ran, and ran! He ran around the maze a dozen times and was so excited. He found other kids to run and chase, then he chased us, then we chased him, then he wanted to play a little game of hide and seek with us. For not having a nap and being up extra early he sure had loads of energy to run off! After we wore Colin out we bought a few ears of corn for dinner and headed home to fire up the grill for some bratwurst. Yum!