Oktoberfest!

On Saturday we finally arrived in Hermann! Let me tell you this was the perfect time of year to see this place! It was beautiful!! All of the changing leaves made everything just amazing!

1st stop, Stone Hill Winery~

We decided to do the tour of the winery which was very interesting. It has quite a history! It used to be the largest winery in the US, until prohibition and then the government came in and destroyed pretty much everything~even ripping the grapes out of the ground! It has taken a long time to get up and running again and it is still not even producing 1/2 the amount of wine that it used to per year.

Check out the rows and rows of grapes. They explained that these grapes would be picked in the next week to start the process of making wine.

Then we moved on to the "dungeon" :) where the grapes go through the entire process of becoming wine. Pretty interesting stuff. I like wine already but this tour definitely helped me to appreciate it and understand the process more.

Then on to the tasting!

This room was packed with 45 other people on the tour with us, but we seemed to be the last to leave the tasting room! ;)

For lunch Lynette and I tried a brat with sauerkraut! Neither of us had ever had it before and it wasn't too bad! (Linds decided to stick with a good ol' hot dog) We also tried the German potato salad which was served warm, and was both sweet and spicy at the same time~very strange combo that I don't think any of us really enjoyed! The chunky applesauce was yummy though.

We decided to head down to where the rest of the German festivities were being held. We came across a little shop called Ricky's Chocolate Box. Check out these chocolates~wow! My favorite was the chocolate chip cookie dough truffle~it was delicious!

This is a little beer garden that had a band playing oompah music. People were dancing away and some were even dressed up in the traditional German clothing.

We also came across many pavilions and beer gardens where every body was out relaxing, dancing, enjoying wine, playing games, etc... pretty cool!

More of the beautiful scenery~


We saw this Tin Mill Brewery and decided to go inside and check it out. Lynette took this really cute picture of Linds and I, so I decided to set the timer on my camera and put it on top of a car to get a picture with all three of us in it...

Right as the picture was about to take, these people walked up behind us and jumped in our picture! Apparently they had been trying to sneak into the background of people's pictures all day! We made one of the guys take another picture but it did not turn out very good! What a bummer because this would have been a cute one!

We tried a few of the different kinds of beers and decided that the Maibock was our favorite. And we got to keep these cute glasses too (no, I did not steal them!).

As we were heading out of the town we couldn't help but notice the cops that were on patrol. Obviously they want to make sure that no one drinks and drives but we just cracked up laughing because they were driving around on golf carts!! Hilarious!

I made Lindsay take a picture with The Book, the whole reason this trip was planned in the first place! :) But I am so glad that we went, It was such a fun weekend!

Now I can't wait to see the next place that she comes up with for us to visit!!