Wurst Festival!

You just have to say "Bratwurst" to see Scott's eyes light up. Add "Festival" to that and he gets giddy. So, he didn't need much prompting when I said I wanted to check out the Wallingford Wurst Festival.

Turns out, it wasn't so much of a festival as it was a school fundraising fair. In it's 26th year, the festival is put on by this Catholic school in Wallingford and when we got there, it was like the PTC picnic gone wild. The playground had bouncy castles galore, a stage with a band set up, a handful of booths selling food, and then a carnival games area.

Inside the main school building, one of the classrooms was cleared out to hold the used-book sale. We browsed for a while and came away with a bunch of books. At $0.50 for paperback and $1.00 for hardback, we couldn't pass up buying a Northwest Hiking Guide and a SPY book that Scott had wanted to get at Costco. Down the hall in the upstairs auditorium/gym area was the biergarten and dinner area. $4 for brews from Maritime and $12 for a Wurst dinner. We shared a meal (it was ok) and hung out for a bit.

Downstairs, the cafeteria was turned into the mother of all bake-sales. A table ran the length of two walls selling home-made treats like pie, cupcakes, cookies and every other baked goodie you can think of. I opted for a ginormous spice cupcake with cream cheese frosting and a molasses cookie while Scott got a lemon bar. All for $2.50!

In the end, we didn't have as much Wurst as we would have liked, but we had fun feeling like a part of the community. It was neat that there were a TON of children there and you could tell that it's the big event the school puts on and alumni come back for it.