2nd year going to New Ulm in the fall. It was a beautiful fall weekend in the 70's with it getting down to 58*F at night. Perfect camping weather too.
We decided to just choose our campsite once we arrived. There was 1 electric sight left if we wanted to plug in our heater. Since that was 99% RV's we opted for the rustic camping area that only had about 5 other campers all spread out. We picked I think campsite #83? Which wasn't very private, but had a good grass area and not too many trees, hoping for sunshine in the morning, which we didn't get. It was fine because we just went to grab breakfast at Mc'ds.
The campsite for 1 night was $22 total without any extra charges. Nice and cheap for the night and in town at Flandrau State park.
While we weren't in New Ulm during Octoberfest, we didn't have the crowds either, The no-see-um bugs were out in full force, so we didn't enjoy that part.
Morgan creek winery. They too had lots of bugs from harvesting the grapes. So we drank our bottle of wine, had the wood fire pizza and left asap! Excellent wine!!!
Off to Schell's brewery for a drink and a shuttle ride.
Finally got to see a peacock at the brewery.
Looking a little German. Steve is 50% Swedish and 50% French, I'm pretty much 100% German mixed with 10% European mutt.
Burgers for dinner and a fire back at the campsite. We actually purchased wood to burn!
Stopped at Schell's new Distillery. They had a band (on break) and expensive small drinks at $10 each so we skipped that and left.
A very pretty old building.
Walking around New Ulm down town.
Stopped 20 minutes south of New Ulm at this brewery Lost Sanity. Met the owners and had one drink.
This guy deserves a thump for draining his gray water all over the streets. You're supposed to dump them at a designated area for free. Nope, not this guy, he let it drain all over the road on the way out of the camp ground. It's against the law. So of course, I took photos of his license plate, and emailed the park. Hope the person is fined and doesn't do that again. It pollutes and wrecks habitat in the park, plus is just gross! Imagine if everyone did that! We'd have poop and pee all over the roads.
On the drive home, we stopped in Mankato to drive through the Buffalo.
Right up next to the road.
Stopped in Jordan and the biggest candy shop and bought apples and squash for a good price.
I've always wanted to stop at this historical museum in St. Peters. Of course, it was closed on Sunday! grrr...some day we'll be able to check it out.
Celina and Don went to the Vikings Game, had great seats, 23 or 26th row! Vikings won and Celina scored a goal at her fun soccer game this Sunday. Win/win!!
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