My other entry is here. And there’s more Wordless Wednesday here.

The following is an excerpt from “About Last Weekend”, an entry I posted on my personal blogsite on 09 November 2007. 

Last Sunday, 04November, we attended the 10am mass instead of our usual 11:45am because we wanted to squeeze in a side-trip to Europe. ;)  Want to know which country?  Here’s a clue…

Come on!  That’s a no-brainer! :D  Ok, ok, so we didn’t really go to Germany.  But it sure felt like we did!  We spent the afternoon in New Braunfels (Braunfels = “brown rock” in German), home to a good number of German-Texans and which is only an hour’s drive away from where we live.  It was all for a good cause, the Wurstfest. ;) 

Wurstfest literally means sausage festival.  In New Braunfels, it’s a 10-day celebration of German heritage.  There’s lots of things German: music, souvenirs, and food, food, food!  We went there for the sausages and we did have our fill…

bratwurst with a side of sauerkraut, potato salad (sour!) and bread

smoked bratwurst with the same trimmings

Since we didn’t finish our sides, we didn’t get really full yet…so hubby, Abby and I shared a sausage on a stick. ;)  We had a sausage festival alright!

The long line for potato pancakes got us overly curious.  It never got short!  We endured a 15-30 minute wait.

Here it is…potato pancakes with applesauce.  One can have it with sausage.  It didn’t appeal to me.  It was like hashbrowns only I would prefer the hashbrowns.  I guess curiosity got the best of us.

We left New Braunfels to head home at 4pm.  On the way back, I needed to take a restroom break so I asked hubby to make a detour and drive out exit 200.  Waddaya know, it’s the exit to two huge outlet centers: Prime Outlets San Marcos and Tanger Outlets!   A restroom break never got me so excited!  I chose to do my thing at Prime Outlets. ;)  Seriously, we really did plan to stop by the outlets, to “take a look”.  It was a good kind of torture if you ask me…windowshopping at one of the biggest outlet centers!  We only stayed there for 2 hours.  I did end up buying a few stuff though: cheap Ralph Lauren shades and a couple of bottles of body wash and body mist (Bath and Body Works).

Here’s the thing that’s getting me excited, from 12mn to 8am on the Friday after Thanksgiving, there’s supposed to be a huge sale all over the US.  I’m sort of targetting to be at San Marcos in that 8-hour window.  I’m thinking we spend the night in San Marcos after Thanksgiving dinner or hubby and Abby can just, well, sleep in the car. ;)  Hahaha!  We’ll see.  There’s an outlet 15 minutes away form where we live, which will have the same super sale hours but the stores in San Marcos just makes my heart beat faster.

I think we’ll just kick back and relax this weekend…unless something interesting presents intself.  Have a great weekend y’all!