Saturday, December 06, 2003
Oakwood RV Resort, Fredericksburg, TX - Dec 4-6
This was an okay Passport America park located about 2 miles south of town. If we come back again, we will probably stay at the Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park just a mile further south, which has quite attractive winter rates for longer stays and is also a more attractive park. We enjoyed Fredericksburg a lot -- it is especially attractive at Christmas time. The town is famous for its shops and German heritage. Its motto is "German heritage, Texan hospitality". There are many many shops containing lovely things that we can't afford and don't have room for anyway -- but it's fun to look. There was one specialty food store that had samples of all their food out to taste. You could make a lunch of it there was so much variety. Beware of the Habanero Salsa though!! It was QUITE spicy.
Willie has always wanted to see Luckenbach, TX, (famous from the song) so we stopped by on our way out to the LBJ Ranch historical site. And things were hopping at the Luckenbach saloon that day -- the beer was cold, there were singers and storytellers and lots of strangers buying everyone beers, so we never made it to the Ranch (quite a different type of day for us).
Friday evening was the beginning of Fredericksburg's Christmas market & festival (Weihnachten). There was a parade of lighted floats and special lights in the town park (Marktplatz). The parade was quite long with lots of festive floats. There was a Luckenbach float & they recognized us! At the Marktplatz they had a Christmas market with people selling locally made items of all types. Inside one tent was a Christmas Tree Forest -- trees were decorated & donated by local organizations and available for purchase by silent auction, with proceeds going to local charities. They also had a stage (called the Glockenspiel Stage) which had live performances during the day. We saw an abbreviated Nutcracker ballet and enjoyed it -- after playing in scores of Nutcrackers ourselves, we both thought 50 minutes was just about right. Saturday afternoon we went to a Christmas concert by the Fredericksburg Chorale that was quite good, but didn't have any of the "holiday favorites" we were hoping for.
Willie has always wanted to see Luckenbach, TX, (famous from the song) so we stopped by on our way out to the LBJ Ranch historical site. And things were hopping at the Luckenbach saloon that day -- the beer was cold, there were singers and storytellers and lots of strangers buying everyone beers, so we never made it to the Ranch (quite a different type of day for us).Friday evening was the beginning of Fredericksburg's Christmas market & festival (Weihnachten). There was a parade of lighted floats and special lights in the town park (Marktplatz). The parade was quite long with lots of festive floats. There was a Luckenbach float & they recognized us! At the Marktplatz they had a Christmas market with people selling locally made items of all types. Inside one tent was a Christmas Tree Forest -- trees were decorated & donated by local organizations and available for purchase by silent auction, with proceeds going to local charities. They also had a stage (called the Glockenspiel Stage) which had live performances during the day. We saw an abbreviated Nutcracker ballet and enjoyed it -- after playing in scores of Nutcrackers ourselves, we both thought 50 minutes was just about right. Saturday afternoon we went to a Christmas concert by the Fredericksburg Chorale that was quite good, but didn't have any of the "holiday favorites" we were hoping for.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 11:36 PM 
