23rd Annual Gemutlichkeit Luncheon

Saturday we drove in snow showers to Humboldt to the German meal at the Zion Lutheran Church. We met Terri & Todd there. We waited in the beautiful sanctuary for less than 5 min. before our numbers were called. We went through a line where the ladies, dressed in German dresses, served us a brat, sauerkraut, German potato salad, and black forest cake with about 4 kinds of cookies including springerle. We were seated and a woman came and read this German prayer with us:

"Komm, Herr Jesu, and sei unser Gast und segne uns alles was Du uns bescheret hast. Amen." (Come, Lord Jesus, and be our guest and let Thy gifts to us be blessed. Amen.)

On the table was a basket of various breads. One even had candied fruit in it. There was a relish tray with pickled beets, candied dill pickles and regular dill pickles cut in tiny spears. We also had a little container of fruit soup.

VERY unfortunately, my camera batteries were low and I was only able to get this one picture of the sanctuary. Up front, the cross made of pots of poinsettias was so pretty! Many of the churches here have these beautiful, high wood ceilings. I wanted to take pictures of the food and more! Will have to go back next year - and we're planning on it! Like at the Norwegian dinner Terri & I went to and got to sit with and talk to two Norwegian couples, this time we were fortunate to sit with a lady who was on the team that made the German potato salad so she filled us in on how they accomplished this meal, etc. The food was very good, and it was a relaxing, special meal - all for only $10.

We asked how many they usually serve and they said 500 with about 150 of those meals being carryout. Like the church doing the Norwegian dinner, they wonder how long they will continue to do this as it's a lot of work.

Our landscape is all white now so probably will be until Spring! This morning the temp. was right at zero when we got up - but like it usually is here, the sun is shining bright. We babysat the great nieces overnight Sat. so our tree is up with the help of the little elves. I went along too for the visit to see Santa Claus so I have more pictures to share.