Three weeks of Neustadt's Deutsches Weinlesefest ended today with the highlight event, the Weinlesefest Parade. We had heard it was a massive parade, and so the kids - having in mind Ankeny's Summerfest parade and all that candy - each went and found a big plastic bag able to hold as much candy as they could possible carry. Unfortunately, they all pretty much went home empty handed, because although it was in fact a huge parade with 131 entries, it didn't feature candy. What it did feature, however, was plenty of wine. Adults brought (or bought) their own wine glasses and held them up to passing floats, who generously filled and re-filled them with a few ounces of wine. After 131 floats, that's a lot of wine...so by the time the last float presenting the new Wine Queen for 2010/2011, the parade was a-hoppin!Der Winzerfestumzug: Yet another reason to drink some wine.
Three weeks of Neustadt's Deutsches Weinlesefest ended today with the highlight event, the Weinlesefest Parade. We had heard it was a massive parade, and so the kids - having in mind Ankeny's Summerfest parade and all that candy - each went and found a big plastic bag able to hold as much candy as they could possible carry. Unfortunately, they all pretty much went home empty handed, because although it was in fact a huge parade with 131 entries, it didn't feature candy. What it did feature, however, was plenty of wine. Adults brought (or bought) their own wine glasses and held them up to passing floats, who generously filled and re-filled them with a few ounces of wine. After 131 floats, that's a lot of wine...so by the time the last float presenting the new Wine Queen for 2010/2011, the parade was a-hoppin!
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