Schueberfouer

Schueberfouer is a big fair the runs for 3 weeks in the end of August and the first half of September.  It happens to be located between our neighborhood and downtown.  The advantage is that we can easily walk to the rides.  On the other hand, we have to pass it every day and resist the 2€ per child rides!

We had a little sneak peek on Sunday night and then Jeremy took a break Wed afternoon so that we could take the boys for a couple hours of fun.  We could have stayed at the kids bumper cars til the rides closed at 1am!

It was crazy unorganized compared to what you would expect in the US.  When the ride stopped, some kids got out, some stayed, it was a free for all for all the other kids standing around the sides of the ride (completely ungated).  On our first attempt to ride bumper cars, Colden wasn't aggressive enough to get a car, so as he is looking around and walking back towards me, they just start the cars and he had to dodge them on his way off the floor!  I've never seen anything like that before!

We even took the kids on an adult ride thinking it looked tame enough... It went FAST!!  We had fun, but no requests to ride that one again!

Food at a fair is always greasy or sugary... and delicious! I was disappointed not to find any fried dough, funnel cakes, elephants ears or whatever you call them!  We did have local sausages that were delicious and the small cup of water cost 0,20€ less than Jeremy's beer!  I took a picture of the new thing we tried... It was a nicely seasoned fried potato patty.  One serving was 3 of these... I thought the one I ate was plenty filling.

Since the fair runs for another 11 days, I'm betting we'll be back :)