Wine fest

Good morning everyone,

Another great time at the wine fest is year, with some add stuff to make it more interesting. Arrived about 2pm after parking and getting the girls together its was about 2:15pm. Ok everyone to the wine tent. My wife and I had hit about 4 wine stands trying different wines they had to offer. You only got about 1 oz at a time. So I grabbed a table in the middle and was doing some people watching. Had been there maybe 15 mins when man a liitle younger then me asked if his wife could sit down in my extra chair. Looking at her I told him yes. She was very red face and just about to pass out. She was sitting only about a minute when she began to throw up. Now I use to be in the EMS system, but that was twenty years ago. As soon as that smell hit my nose my stomach started to roll. My wife had just walked back to the table with 4 bottles of wine and seen what was going on. She looked at me saw my face and went to one of the wine stands. Returned with a wet towel and had told the people at the stand to call the medics. With the wet towel the lady was starting to come around but the medics still took her to a cool zone to check her out. So proud of my wife for her quick thinking and fast acting.

Now with our moment of excitement over we returned to drinking. Our girls had done one whole side of the tent trying every wine each stand had. They were feeling pretty good when they hit the table. Thank god the lady was gone or they would have to change the name to another kind of fest. So we move out side in the nice wind to help cool off and the girls see that there giving river curise’s. So they walked on over and paid and climb on board with 70 other people to curise the river. As their waiting for everyone to board, our friends call there over close to the stage. So we walk over and there 2 girls and there 2 year old g-daughter with one of there friends is lost trying to get to wine fest. Now all of these young ladies our in there twenties from early to late twenties.  So there father try’s to get them turned around going back in direction they should go. Hopefuly they are and we’ll see them soon. Now our girl and her 2 friends are out enjoying a nice relaxing ride on the river. We think. We had just finished eating and my wifes phone goes off. It’s our daughter texting us the boat is broken down and there trying to beach it. As she is texting our daughter back I see the fire water rescue truck with there boat trailing behind them pull up and a fire truck. Now water rescue boats are only about 14 ft long and can only handle 5 people maybe 6 at the most. There are 70 people on the boat thats broken this is going to take some time.

So as the rescue boat speeds down river our daughter texts back they can only take 2 people at a time in the rescue boat. Holy shit this is going to take hours. So where we were sitting was just about 50 yards from the boat landing, so we could see everything going on. It was about half an hour and still no one had returned in the rescue boat. Another half an hour goes by now were kind of whats going on. Then just as our friends girls arrive all pissed off and hot not 10 minutes later our girls arrive pissed off and hot and dusty. Seem the fire dept. hooked up some rope to some ATV’s and everyone held on to the rope and climbed up the hill. Then everyone was put on trolleys and returned to the wine fest. What fun for only 12 dollars, they had a river curise a water rescue a little bit of up hill rope climbing and a trolley ride. Damn you could ask for more now a days. But everyone was ok no one was in any real danger. The boat crew did a great job getting the boat out of the middle of the river and to shore before she completely quit. The fire crews also did and great job thinking to unload on the shore, it would have been more dangerous if they tryed to go with the rescue boat. Alot of people don’t do good with balance on water and stepping from one boat to another is shaky on a good day for some add this and your talking accident waiting to happen. So hats off to all the crews who were involved by family is very greatfull to all of you.

So after all that we still had a great time and look forward to next year and what ever adventures come our way.

Duke