Fred, You should have taken your own car and visited Herman and the surrounding very German area. An afternoon visiting the winery's and eating Brats can be a lot of fun..........Barbara >From: "W. Fred Rump" <FredRump@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com >To: GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Still here, but now in Colorado >Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:56:12 -0400 > >On 2 Jul 2001, at 22:47, AKnaebel@aol.com wrote: > > > Sorry to hear of you disappointment in Jefferson City, MO. For the > > most part it is mostly German. The surroundings towns are also > > German. There is the historic downtown area to strol as well as the > > state capital and other places of interest. The Runge Nature Center > > would have been great and told you all about the habit of the area. > >It wassn't the city I was disappointed with but rather the tour. We >had a brief tour of the capitol which lasted about 45 minutes with >quite a bit of that just waiting for the group to gather in one spot >with elevators being small and all that. Most of the time was spent >in the house of rep's lounge with all the paintings. We also went to >the restored house on the riverfront and saw a movie there. Then >there was a trip to the Jefferson monument high up on the river >bank. That plus our meal was the tour. Oh, yes, we did stop at the >Runge Nature Center but there was never enough time. My >granddaughter was so intent on reading the displays that she lost >our group and was not to be found on the bus. I ran back and forth >looking for her but couldn't find her anywhere. I then had them >announ ce her name in the center and there she was wondering >what all the fuss was about. > >If I had taken a car over there and did my own tour of the city I >would have gotten much more out f the trip. > >Fred > > > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== >Complaints: >Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

> Fred, > You should have taken your own car and visited Herman and the surrounding > very German area. An afternoon visiting the winery's and eating Brats can be > a lot of fun..........Barbara The Berlin Wall Sculpture and the Churchill Memorial in Fulton, just east of Columbia, is definately worth a stop... http://www.westminster-mo.edu/churchill_memorial/index.asp Jackie

On 4 Jul 2001, at 10:16, Barbara Heiles wrote: > You should have taken your own car and visited Herman and the > surrounding very German area. An afternoon visiting the winery's and > eating Brats can be a lot of fun..........Barbara I know about the own car thing but we've covered Herman previously. It was a wonderful trip. Fred