Here are a few pictures of Hermann, MO. We are standing in front of the grape-vines of the Stoney Hill Winery. We took a tour of the cellars which contains many tanks and barrels of wine in the fermentation process. It is hard to imagine how those cellars could've been built without the equipment of today. The company was shut down and all wine-making equipment dismantled and destroyed during the prohibition era, and opened again around 1980. I took a picture of Jerry, when a nice young man volunteered to take a picture of both of us.
This is a picture taken from the car as we were taking a drive suggested by the B&B owner. He said if we wanted to see some beautiful views, take 10th street out in the country. It was a very curvy drive with steep hills - and a road so narrow we prayed we wouldn't meet an oncoming vehicle. Eventually, at the dead-end, we turned around and went back into town. There were some beautiful homes overlooking the river. Certainly different than cornfields!! Impossible to take pictures that really show the beauty and depth with my little camera, but this is a "taste" as we began the drive on the gravel road.
Jerry took this picture of me along the water front of the Missouri River. The temperature was around 100. We had taken quite a walk along the river street - in and out of shops - stopping for ice cream - and as we were going to head back to the B&B, which was about three blocks away up a steep hill, I told Jerry I wanted to sit on a bench for a bit. He looked at me and said "I think I'll go get the car and come back and get you - your face is red as a beet" -- to which I replied, "thank you". He's such a sweetie.
Another surprise for me was that we met Grandma and Grandpa Wetzel at Bandana's B-B-Q in Rolla for lunch and picked up Heat and Nathan who had been visiting them for a week. They live in West Plains MO, about 1.5 hour south of Rolla. It was nice to see them, and I know how exciting it was for them to have their grandchildren for a week. It sounded like they kept them busy - and fortunately they have an above-ground pool so they could stay cool.
This is a picture taken from the car as we were taking a drive suggested by the B&B owner. He said if we wanted to see some beautiful views, take 10th street out in the country. It was a very curvy drive with steep hills - and a road so narrow we prayed we wouldn't meet an oncoming vehicle. Eventually, at the dead-end, we turned around and went back into town. There were some beautiful homes overlooking the river. Certainly different than cornfields!! Impossible to take pictures that really show the beauty and depth with my little camera, but this is a "taste" as we began the drive on the gravel road.
Jerry took this picture of me along the water front of the Missouri River. The temperature was around 100. We had taken quite a walk along the river street - in and out of shops - stopping for ice cream - and as we were going to head back to the B&B, which was about three blocks away up a steep hill, I told Jerry I wanted to sit on a bench for a bit. He looked at me and said "I think I'll go get the car and come back and get you - your face is red as a beet" -- to which I replied, "thank you". He's such a sweetie.
Another surprise for me was that we met Grandma and Grandpa Wetzel at Bandana's B-B-Q in Rolla for lunch and picked up Heat and Nathan who had been visiting them for a week. They live in West Plains MO, about 1.5 hour south of Rolla. It was nice to see them, and I know how exciting it was for them to have their grandchildren for a week. It sounded like they kept them busy - and fortunately they have an above-ground pool so they could stay cool.
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Looks like a great getaway weekend. Glad you had a wonderful time despite the heat.
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