Wine Time

A drive through Pammel Park was suggested by the lady at the Chamber so we drove through this park next.  The tunnel we drove through is the only highway tunnel in Iowa - per the Chamber lady. I actually googled that info to see if it was true and it is!!  It's a cool tunnel!!

Patty and I had been texting the guys off and on and even though the following picture IS a place that you can drive over, it looked a little deep to us as we were in a cadillac and the clearance isn't very high - nevertheless, we texted the guys that we DID drive over this waterway and it was a good thing we had the windows up as the water was higher than expected - ha ha!  They didn't fall for it!

We really kept our eyes open for the winery - and sure enough we found it easily enough - but the sign to turn on the road isn't very large!

The menu was cool since some of the wines were named featuring the movie!

We went ahead and did a wine tasting and also ordered a meat and cheese platter since we were rather hungry by this time!  We enjoyed the tastings and Patty ended up ordering a glass of regular wine while I ordered the slushy wine - it was delicious!!

The guys had texted us that they were going fishing out at the dam on our farm - somehow the rope came loose when the boat came off the trailer and it slid right out in the middle of the dam!!  So the guys had to wait till it drifted back in before they could climb on and fish!!

Glenn caught a nice one and the guys ended up grilling it that evening!

Back in Winterset, we decided to skip dinner since we had eaten at the winery - we did go back to the hotel and change clothes for our evening musical!   It was held in a theater - a lot like the theaters we used to go to growing up although this one seemed much smaller!  The small cast was singing songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein collection of hits from old movies - the presentation was called "Some Enchanted Evening" and although we didn't know a few of the songs as the movies were older ones, we still thoroughly enjoyed it!

At intermission, I looked down at my pants leg and saw a bug on it so I flicked it off -unfortunately it landed on Patty and she flicked it off her pants but noticed that it looked like a tick!!!  GEESH!!!  Then we decided we had better find it since we didn't want it crawling back up our legs during the second 1/2 of the performance.  So I turned on the flashlight portion of my phone and we bent down trying to find this tick - sure enough it was there on my program (which I had dropped when I flicked the bug the first time) and it WAS a tick!!  Patty took it to the bathroom and flushed it away - we laughed and laughed!!!

Here is the cast from the performance.

Afterwards we saw a Tastee Freez so decided to stop for ice cream sundaes - yum!!!  The place was very busy and so reminded me of growing up in a small town and heading to Ute to go get ice cream - such great memories!!!

We were pretty tired after our busy day so our hotel beds looked very inviting that night!!