Oct. 4, 2013

Oct. 4, 2013

We have had a problem with our wifi while in Leavenworth, so I’m posting a couple of days here.  On Oct. 4, we spent the day geo-caching and walking all around Leavenworth.  We ended up at the Icicle Microbrewery and had a beer there and met two couples there.  We had a great visit with them. One couple was from the D.C. area and flew out the day the government shut down.  They both work for the government and one of them works for the Corps of Engineers.  We found out some interesting news about the corps parks, and I don’t think we RVer’s are going to like the changes that are in the future.  We attended the opening of the Oktoberfest that evening, and found it quite interesting.  Everyone wears a hat, and the crazier the better!  There’s even a shop on Front St. (the most popular street) in town that sells only hats!  The music was in 3 tents and their festhalle (nice building, meaning fest hall), and they all had portable rubber floors!  That is not conducive to easy dancing.  All four halls played European style music, so it was very fast, and too fast to do the hop polka.  The music was entertaining and quite good, for the most part, and we just listened and watched these crazy people carry on.  We were disappointed in the fact, that we couldn’t dance to that style, and hard to do on that rubber floor, but it was still an enjoyable time.  Jim pointed out that it is a typical Oktoberfest, and it did live up to its reputation.  They announced that all parents take their children home by 9:00, as no one under 21 can be on the grounds after that time.  Does that tell you anything?  We and the children went home at 9:00!  We still had a great day in Leavenworth, but we found out that we are a generation or two, too old to hang in there with the best of them, or we have attained the age of common sense.