Columbus Oktoberfest

Time for our favorite fall festival... Oktoberfest!  So much for us to see, hear, taste and enjoy.  With free admission, we eagerly picked up my brother by car (parking $8) and headed out to the fairgrounds.

Brass Band of Columbus

First up on the entertainment schedule was to hear the Brass Band of Columbus in Prost Hall.  Wow! They were much larger ensemble than I expected and played a variety of wonderful songs from "Roll Out the Barrel" to "Across the Field"  to "God Bless America."   Their concert was enjoyed by young and old... the German and the not so German.

Yummm... cream puffs!

I just had to venture over to the Heidelberg Bier Hall to see the Cream Puff Eating contest.  Again, wow!  This is the stuff you don't wake up thinking you will get to witness, but you do.

We did not wander around Kinderplatz this year (though it is usually a must go stop for me, I love seeing the kids run all over and all the neat kids events they have) but instead stopped at the Columbus Historical Society area and found this lovely display case full of Columbus memorabilia:

Old matchbooks from restaurants all over town... including Dalts.  Do you remember that place?  How about the totem-like cups from the Kahiki?  Old plaques from Schmidts and a coffee mug from White Castle.

My husband sitting with my brother; can you guess
which one could be a professional photo-bomber?