German Sausage festival

This past weekend we read in the paper that a town about an hour away from us was holding a German bratwurst festival.  Having lived in the UK and visiting Germany many times we all loved brats so we decided to check it out as a family day out.

ON our drive up we also discover this is wine country so we were able to do a few wine tasting.  When it is warmer we plan on visiting again and visit the local wineries.

This poor pig had a bad day.  

This town even has a german beer garden...We discovered this town was once a german immigrant town and there are several museums and an old german school that can be explored.  I will be saving this information for when we studied the emigration of immigrants to the USA of the late 1800's and early 1900's:)

There where huge lines where we could sample all kinds of brats, chicken, pork, vegetarian and a mixture of everything in-between. 

While waiting in line we were serenaded by German music on the accordion, which my kids had never seen or heard  before.  I remember learning how to play one in school years ago.

More lines and more free tastings:)

The kids soon got tired of standing in line:) and we heading to the local German restaurant were we had an excellent German brat meal with real German potato salad