herbiehancock

This past weekend on Sunday afternoon, my husband and I took a trip out to Oregon, Ohio for the German American festival .  We had a good time walking around the festival.  One of the things we saw was the giant Glockenspiel with live actors dancing and singing. It's not elaborate like the one in Munich , of course, but it was fun to see. We enjoyed the German festival food and liked seeing all the folks costumed in traditional German clothing like dirndls and lederhosen.   This was as close as my husband and I got to wearing the traditional German garb. We also enjoyed listening to all the polka music being played at various spots around the festival.  Although, at one point some of the polka music brought tears for me.  My Dad served in the air force when he was a young man, and he was stationed in Germany.  While there, he learned how to play the accordion and loved to play polka music.  He even taught me how to do the polka when I was a young girl....

Because my husband won tickets to the German American Festival over the radio, we traveled to Oregon, Ohio yesterday afternoon. Parking for the festival was in a large field. We have had so much rain of late, that the field was quite muddy in places. We had to walk a short way across the field to get to the festival. This photo below was taken as we were walking through the field where the cars were parked. Ahead you can see a woman dressed in a traditional German costume. At the entrance to the festival was a giant inflated beer bottle. It seemed like a good place for a photo, so my husband took a picture of me standing next to it. It was very windy yesterday and my hair was whipping around my face all a whirl. It was driving me crazy. Because I have naturally curly hair, it easily becomes unruly in windy weather or when humidity levels are high, both of which we had here yesterday. (When I was a little girl, my mother often told me that I have hair like the wild women of...