Villagersonline : blogs : andrea : Let's all be German!

From: andrea
Date: Sun Oct  2 11:58:33 MST 2005
Subject: Let's all be German!

Responses
eric: No Subject (10/2/05)

andrea: or Sunday? (10/2/05)

james: count me in! (10/3/05)

KeithB: website (10/2/05)

NewRyan: schnitzel (10/3/05)
Karen: Carpooling, then? (10/3/05)

Karen: Appropriate attire.... (10/3/05)

andrea: we can go up a little later (10/4/05)

andrea: change in situation (10/4/05)
KeithB: Eisenach (10/4/05)

eschhman: Sounds good, Karen (10/6/05)

Karen: Fall colors (10/6/05)

russ: Aspen (10/7/05)

eschhman: Fall colors (10/7/05)

Karen: $5 fee (10/7/05)

dbonilla: No Subject (10/9/05)

Responses (sorted by date)
dbonilla: No Subject (10/9/05)
Karen: $5 fee (10/7/05)
eschhman: Fall colors (10/7/05)
russ: Aspen (10/7/05)
Karen: Fall colors (10/6/05)
eschhman: Sounds good, Karen (10/6/05)
KeithB: Eisenach (10/4/05)
andrea: change in situation (10/4/05)
andrea: we can go up a little later (10/4/05)
Karen: Appropriate attire.... (10/3/05)
Karen: Carpooling, then? (10/3/05)
james: count me in! (10/3/05)
NewRyan: schnitzel (10/3/05)
andrea: or Sunday? (10/2/05)
KeithB: website (10/2/05)
eric: No Subject (10/2/05)

Hey all....we would like to get a bunch of people to go up to the Oktoberfest this next weekend on Mount Lemon. It is only $3 for parking and no entry fee...see the link below.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/foothills/94211
I was mourning not having a sense of ethnic culture at the Greek festival. German is the most distinct of the ethnic (outside of the general US culture) I have, so would love to go experience it. Who's game?

Edit this blog
Write a response Email the author

From: eric
Date: Sun Oct  2 12:16:55 MST 2005
Subject:

Andrea,
when is it? cheryl's party starts at 2pm on Sat. So i'm not sure if I could go. does it happen on fri. or Sunday.
e

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: andrea
Date: Sun Oct  2 14:41:49 MST 2005
Subject: or Sunday?

I am not really good at connecting everything that is happening as the same time. We are planning on going to Cheryl's party and have invited other to it too. This problem of mine is why I end up with 2 appointments with Clients at the same time.
Anyway, anyone want to go Sunday?

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: james
Date: Mon Oct  3 05:51:48 MST 2005
Subject: count me in!

I would like to go also. I live near Alvernon and Ft. Lowell at Dave Eschhofen's place. I was thinking getting there around 9-ish. Maybe we could do some hiking after? The phone number to my house is 325-5131 and is a landline accessible when we're offline.

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: KeithB
Date: Sun Oct  2 14:06:47 MST 2005
Subject: website

Here's the article on the above website:
"For more than 30 years now, Mount Lemmon's Ski Valley has been serving up a taste of German culture with its annual Oktoberfest celebration.
Locals and tourists alike turn out to sample live music from the Norm Seiss Variety Band - now a 10-year main-stay - polka performances by the Tucson Ethnic Dance Ensemble, a menu full of traditional German fare and, of course, a beer list to match.
The event continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays for the next three weekends, ending Oct. 9.
There is a $3 charge to park at the Oktoberfest, but no fee is necessary to drive up to Ski Valley."

Edit this response
Write a response

From: NewRyan
Date: Sun Oct  2 21:32:52 MST 2005
Subject: schnitzel

I'll go this Sunday and the next and the next. Or at least this Sunday. I'm pretty much obligated to go really, since I think I am at least a fraction German.
-r

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: Karen
Date: Mon Oct  3 10:45:21 MST 2005
Subject: Carpooling, then?

Eric et al, can we meet up at your place and carpool from there Sunday a.m.?
For setup/band, at least some of us will need to be back home by 2-3 pm. On the other hand, I don't really want to get up before 7 a.m. So can we meet at Seneca around 8:45-9?

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: Karen
Date: Mon Oct  3 15:09:14 MST 2005
Subject: Appropriate attire....

I don't own any lederhosen. Maybe I'll wear my polka dots.
Trizia/Chris, what is that 1 part beer, 1 part Coke/Sprite thing called? (Or maybe I'll just drink Coke...I drank R.C. at the Greek fest.)
As for my claim to German heritage, my dad was born a Weingartner (Grandpa changed the name legally when Dad was five--too "ethnic") and my mother's grandfather was a Boerngen. But I'm more of an Uff-da (upper midwestern, lefse-eating Norwegian)/ Kiss Me, I'm Irish (Celtic warrior princess with self-deprecating irony) kinda girl.

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: andrea
Date: Tue Oct  4 09:17:39 MST 2005
Subject: we can go up a little later

Ryan and I can't go up until 10:30-11am...we could meet you guys up there for lunch though. If anyone needs to leave at the later time, we can meet at our house then.
As far as German heritage, my maternal great grandfather Otto Schmidt came to the US in 1864 from Eisenach, Germany. It is between Frankfurt and Berlin according to my dad and uncle. My grandmother wrote a book of her memories growing up, which I cherish. It includes really neat info like where he grew up and a little of what his life was like in Germany.

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: andrea
Date: Tue Oct  4 13:49:17 MST 2005
Subject: change in situation

Ryan and I can now meet at the Seneca house at the previously discussed time of 8:45-9am. We'll see ya there.

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: KeithB
Date: Tue Oct  4 15:31:47 MST 2005
Subject: Eisenach

Andrea, yesterday (10/3) was German Reunification Day...15 years ago yesterday, Julie and I were in Germany when it all happened -- we spent that day of German Reunification in a little former East German town named... EISENACH. Isn't that bizarre?
Eisenach was behind the iron curtain during the Cold War, very close to the East/West border in Germany. That day in 1990 was the first day that the U.S. military allowed personnel to travel unfettered into former East Germany territory. So Julie and I decided to do just that, finding Eisenach to be one of the closest larger towns on the map. We went with no information, just going to see what we could find. We found a a very delapidated city of soot and potholes, but we also found a wonderful little festival celebrating reunification -- complete with the oompah band, folk dancing and bratwurst. We also toured the area and found a beautiful little estate turned into a tourist attraction, that was Martin Luther's home for several years (maybe when he wrote the 95 theses?).
This is one of my fonder memories of our time in Germany -- it's very cool that we now have another connection to Eisenach.

Edit this response
Write a response

From: eschhman
Date: Thu Oct  6 12:03:15 MST 2005
Subject: Sounds good, Karen

Let's do meet at the Seneca house about 9 AM. I have been thinking of a road trip to Globe for their 1st balloon race(actually the Apache Gold Casino's) and then to Prescott to see the fall colors, but this will take far less gas cost. We can plan a hike around Ski Valley or Summerhaven, thereby looking for the fall colors up there.
Dave, the eschhman

Edit this response
Write a response

From: Karen
Date: Thu Oct  6 15:27:11 MST 2005
Subject: Fall colors

I think that most of the trees there are pine--or, in the lower elevations, other non-deciduous trees--so I don't expect to see many about-to-drop leaves. There will be a few colorful people up there, though.
Looks like interested parties will be meeting up at 9:00 a.m. and there will be at least 2 vehicles, at least one of them returning to Tucson 2:30-ish.

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: russ
Date: Thu Oct  6 18:30:19 MST 2005
Subject: Aspen

Unless I'm insane, I think there are Aspen up near the top. Take the road past the Ski Lodge, up toward the meadow...

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: eschhman
Date: Fri Oct  7 00:55:27 MST 2005
Subject: Fall colors

Of course, there are aspens, maples, oak trees changing their color about now up in Summerhaven and Ski Valley. We could do a car shuttle, if needed. We can discuss it with my trail map that I will bring on Saturday(yes, I have decided to go as long as I get a hike in on Sunday). There is a real neat area called Bear Wallow that is reachable from Ski Valley that is beautiful and various-colored leaves about this time of the year. Not sure about getting away without the Mt. Lemmon pass for hiking from Ski Valley if it is OK to go there without it. My own pass just expired.

Edit this response
Write a response

From: Karen
Date: Fri Oct  7 08:40:26 MST 2005
Subject: $5 fee

That's right, if we're going to hike, we'll need to pay the per-car fee.

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

From: dbonilla
Date: Sun Oct  9 00:05:41 MST 2005
Subject:

Russ says that he thinks that there's no fee to hike as long as you're parked at Summerhaven and start your hike out of Summerhaven. Caveat: He's not sure, in fact he's about 60% unsure.
I like German--the language because I enjoyed a class of it at CSULA for my chemistry degree, and the country because I visited there in 1983 and loved it. I love the German people too. I'm not aware of any German blood since I know my ancestors only as far back as great grandparents (one of which was full Cherokee, and others from southeast US and Costa Rica). I must admit tho' that I am way overdue for a hike and would prefer to do that over the Oktoberfest. However, if I don't exit this study group soon, go home and go to sleep, I will be doing neither.

Edit this response
Write a response Email the author

Write a blog