German American Day

 Saturday, August 13, 2022

With overcast, cloudy skies, it looked like the rain could come at any moment.  Peter and I were determined to go to the German American Day at Carl Schurz Park in Stone Bank come rain or shine.  Find out more about Carl Schurz here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schurz

 Last year we turned around at Guerkey's Corners when it was pouring, but not raining in Stone Bank.  Peter bought wrist bands beforehand from Margie Greis; the advantage of getting wrist bands in advance was paying $5.00 instead of $7.00 at the entrance.  Peter had folding chairs and steins that we set up to watch the parade.  The parade was at 1:00 p.m., not 2:00 p.m., so we missed it.  Peter met many of his friends among the large crowd as we strolled through the park.  The food line was long, but moved steadily forward.  Peter had a Hungarian brat, I had a hot dog and we shared some potato salad.  We found a table in the shelter to have our meal with beers. 

Rudy Mittner joined us as we listened to a band and watched dancers.

Margie and Walter Greis sat down with us until we were ready to leave at about 6:30 p.m.  We never made use of the folding chairs or steins; they stayed where we left them until we were ready to leave. As we were driving out of the park it started to drizzle and continued intermittently until we got to Peter's house where I parked my car.

Since I was on the road I decided to drop by at Jay and Laura's to pick up a smoked fish they had for me from Door County.  We had a nice visit before I left for home.