Hermann, Missouri 6-29-12

The last two days have so very HOT!

We have been in Hermann, MO for the last two days.  We thought being in the hills would be cooler - WRONG!

In town, we visited some of our favorite old spots and found some new. A great place is on 1st street, Hermann Wurst Haus.  We were treated to samples of their homemade brats and sausages.  A couple of their flavors were Smoked Apple Maple Sausage, Cheddar Brat, and much much more.  Lunch there was great.  Great place to shop too.  All kinds of mixes, jellys, etc.

Of course after a wonderful meal, guess what we found?!  Custard Concretes!  Yum

 



In search of Antonella's Pepperoni Marinara Cheese that we purchased last visit, we drove 12 miles south to Swiss, MO

They had some wonderful sausages, made in house, cheeses, etc. but alas - not PMCheese.  They too had hot samples of a wide variety of brats and sausages.  The special was buy 4 packages, get one free.  Had to get them and Lexi a smoked pig's ear.



No visit would be complete without going to Stone Hill Winery.  Oh my, guess we will have to sample more wine!  Good as always.  They had sale of 1/3 off unopened cases so we "needed" a case of Cross J.  Being hot and tired we went back and hybernated in the coach for the rest of the evening.

Today we went back into town (we are staying in Lazy Day campground out by the highway) and visited Adam Puchta winery and did another wine tasting.  We came away with more great wine and a bagette.  Lunch was at Stone Hill winery and then to Hermannhof Winery for some white wine and cheese.  We then made a quick stop at Ricky's Chocolate Box.  The selection of hand made candies is remarkable.  We each picked out a couple of pieces for later.  Again it was so hot we went back to the coach for a cool easy evening.

All in all, it was a very successful shopping excursion.

Tomorrow we head to Injun Joe's campground near Hannibal where we will stay for about 4-5 days.

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Visit to Warsaw, Missouri

 Monday we headed out of town and went to Warsaw, MO  to the home of Larry and Edna Hockett (cousins).  It was a delight spending time with them and enjoying their home and 25 acres.   We all agreed it would make a great par 3 golf course.  It is a lot of land but they enjoy it.  Dry camping was great in the shade of the trees and breeze.

It was amazing how many black berries we picked each day.  Thank heavens they had rigged up an ingenious watering system for them because of this drought. They were terrific over vanilla ice cream! 

We took a trip over to the other side of Lebonon yesterday, 6-27, complete with stop at Bennett Springs, great food, outlet mall, and detour with flat tire!  What fun!  Chances are we won't see them again until January in Harlingen, TX.  Thank you Cuzzins!

From here we headed to Hermann, MO...................

SUNDAY 6-24-12

 Time passes quickly when you are having fun.  The Summerfest BBQ in Raytown went very well.  The weather was perfect and a lot of people came.  Since we had the coach parked on the grounds, we had happy hour outside of it every night after closing. 

 I helped with the face painting.

Dog costume contest

 Red Solo Cup!

Sorry the photos are not better but this phone doesn't do too good in the dark.

Today we went to see Aunt Betty Lou in the nursing home before we leave town.  She is doing much better and hopes to go home this Wednesday.

Also we went to Ron and Mary's home for a great gathering of the family.  It was Lori's birthday and we have several other birthdays coming up and we wanted to see everyone before we left.  We were sorry to miss John's kids.  They must have had other plans.  The weather was close to 100 degrees so the kids made good use of their pool.  We are so blessed to have a close family!

 6 week old great nephew, Tobias King, son of David and Nyla King

What a sweetie!

Tomorrow we will leave Lees Summit, MO and go to Warsaw,  MO to visit Hocketts.  Whenever we leave there, it's on to Herman, MO to stock up on wine, summer sausage and pepperoni marinara cheese for the road.  We will start heading north from there.  No definate plans but will have to be home for the first weekend in October for girls scrapbook weekend and the Nascar Races in Kansas.  I will try to do better keeping up with the blog.