A Fair To Remember

It has been raining every day here for the past week. This may sound odd, but I am starting to miss Bakersfield's weather. So during the day we have mostly kept indoors except for some errands here and there. Today, we helped Svenja clean/set-up for her birthday party, which will be Saturday in a large party hall.

Thankfully, last night the rain ceased, because we went to Hannover's bi-yearly fair or festival on the city's large lake. The festival is called Maschseefest. It is nothing like the Kern County Fair. There are no farm animals, rides, or fried oreos. It basically consists of food and alcohol booths and dance clubs that line the river.

Jara's Mom's photo-op

Maschseefest

At the festival with the lake in the background

I was told the night before from one of Jara's friends that I NEEDED to try a Kinder crepe at this festival. Kinder is a popular chocolate bar here. So my mission for the night...demolish a Kinder crepe. I succeeded!

Svenja and I with our crepes

Scott, on the other hand, had another mission. He wanted to demolish some German meat. Meat definitely was not hard to find at this festival. With every five steps you were able to come across some type of booth selling meat mainly bratwurst and currywurst. Scott found a type of meat/sausage that he hasn't had yet...schinkengriller.

Meat Galaore!

The Schinkengriller and Scott

Also, we found out that Hannover is famous for their pretzels, so Jara and Svenja treated us to HUGE pretzel. They were delicious! This festival is also famous for this beer that has a lot of fruit in it. They assured me that I would like this beer, but all I did was fish out the fruit on the bottom. The beer wasn't my cup of tea.

Beer with fruit at the bottom

While we were in the biergarten aka beer garden, we met up with some of Jara's friends. Later while trying to chat with Jara's friends in English (it takes a little longer to have a conversation while they think of English words), two guys approached our table because they heard us speaking English. These two guys, one studied aboard in Texas and the other in New Zealand, were excited to hear English and wanted to talk with us. Come to find out, one of the guys was a National Junior Olympic Swimmer for Germany. Scott and I were excited that we could carry out an English conversation!

After the biergarden, we went to one of the dance clubs at the festival. It was full of people. I could barely get my groove on!

This one is for you mom...Tina Turner made her appearance at the festival