RV Life At It's WURST! (Amana Colonies Wurst Fest)

This is gonna be the worst video ever. Yeah, well we are at the Amana Colonies, which is like a little German Bavarian town. Yeah. And they're having a fest. A worst fest. A bratwurst fest. And so they're gonna be like all kinds of little sausages. Lots of wieners. Lots of sausages to taste. We're gonna be double fisting wieners out here. And they have games, like yard games. And they're gonna have like competitions. And at the end of the day, they're gonna have a wiener dog race. Yeah. So we'll see the little legs running through the little town. It's gonna be awesome. We didn't eat hardly anything today. No. And on purpose. Because we want to maximize our sausage intake today. Maximize. And they're gonna have big beers like they would have at like an Oktoberfest. Yeah. They're gonna have live music here all day. Yep. This is gonna be a fun day. The town itself is gorgeous. It's so cute. Lots of shopping. Lots of wineries and breweries and bakeries. And ah, it's gonna be so good. So Leslie is focusing on the chocolate. Chocolate house. Yes. The bakeries. Yes. The ice cream shop. And the shopping. And the shopping. I will be focusing on the food and the beer. Yeah. Okay. We covered it all then. Yeah. Coming into the worst fest now. This is out here where they have the yard games. And this is where the, this is where the wiener race, wiener dog race is gonna be later. The Dachshund Derby. Can't wait for that. They're getting ready to do a competition up here. They got a live band up here. They're getting ready to do a competition. And I don't know what the name of the competition is. It's like this big long word. But basically the gist of it is these guys try to hold a beer, a full beer stein out as long as they can. Last man standing wins. I don't know what they win. But I think everybody at least gets to keep their beer and drink it. And even the losers get a t-shirt. So there are participation trophies. So worst case scenario, you get a beer and a t-shirt. Our friend Nick is gonna enter the competition and I will be commentating and watching him and rooting him on as he tries to hold this beer longer than all the rest of the guys. All right. We have our contestants up here. We have our beer lined up. There's our friend Nick in the green shirt right there. That's who we're cheering on. Hopefully he can hold it longer than the rest of these guys. Oh, there's some there's some bushley guys up there. There's some there's some rugged dudes. I think they're gonna be able to hold up for for pretty long. Hey, what are you predicting? How long do you think somebody can hold this thing for? I'm gonna go five minutes. Five minutes. I'm gonna go four minutes. All right, here we go. Oh, and they are off to the races. Oh, they're shaking. Nobody wants to be the first one out. They're really struggling. I think when one goes, a lot more are gonna go, but nobody wants to be the first one out. Danger, danger, danger. This is Leslie's kryptonite. Yes, we are not getting out of here without getting some chocolate. We just got done at the chocolate shop. Got some ice cream, which was really good, and I had some chocolate covered bacon. I ate it so fast that I didn't even get to record it, but it was really good. And now we're in the general store and I'm hoping that Leslie can contain herself and we don't spend nine million dollars in here. I can't make any promises. Everything's, like, cute and, like, nostalgic. Yeah. And very local. Yeah. Soaps, lotions, potions, canned foods, candies, popcorn. So good. It's a general store, so it generally has a little bit of everything. Yeah. This place is crazy, man. Oh, this is crap. I find Leslie. I don't know where she went to. Lost her. There she is. Find anything? This is all cooking stuff, but I like it. A little tiny cooking stuff. Yes. For tiny cooking. In case you want to do a little cooking. Lucky. Oh. It takes up no space in the RV. In case you want to do a little shredding. Yeah. This is so cool. Spoons if you want to do a little mixing. A little whisk if you want to do a little whisking. I could do this all day. Please don't. A little spatula in case you want to do a little spatula. Yeah, look at these little condiment spoons. Oh, yeah. I look fancy. Yeah. Like soup spoon, like a little soup spoon. Like when you have, like, ketchup, mustard. Oh, don't mind if I do. I don't know why Leslie's looking at all the cooking stuff. I think she just likes it because it's small and cute. Not that she's actually interested in cooking at all. What are you going to baste? When's the last time you basted something? If you could tell me the last time you basted something, I'll buy you two basters. I basted a turkey once for my mom. In 1998. Oh, it smells good down here. It's because there's coffee. That's a lot of coffees, man. Yeah. Look at all those. Get free samples of coffee here too. This is maple bacon. We were talking about the little utensils. Maybe I could use a little spoon to stir my little coffee. Good. You should go get it. You can definitely taste the maple and the bacon. Yeah. In here. Yeah. It's really good. This, I don't think you would need creamer with this. I would not. Leslie's going to try the maple bacon coffee with no creamer. No creamer. Do it. Do it. I mean, I can get them flavored ones. I guess it would be the same, wouldn't it? It is. It's just, it's the same texture. It's just, she'd gag on those too. It's so funny. Are you okay? Oh, no. Oh, no creamer. That's torture. You don't like that? Oh, no. So I have, I have, I have a hundred percent comes to the conclusion that you don't like coffee. I love my coffee. You like creamer. I never knew because this is good coffee. Our daughter would really love this. She probably would. She appreciates. She does appreciate coffee. She's like a connoisseur. She is. She even kicks her little pinky up when she drinks her coffee. You want another hit? No. Come on. God, no. It's good. No. There's creamer right here. You could put like five packets in this little thing and you'd be all set. Well, this community is really cool. It's an old colony, like way back in the, I don't even know, I'm not going to say the dates because I'll get it all wrong. 1855. 1855. And we're heading into the fudge factory right now. I'm going to keep talking with some of these bigger buildings around here are like, used to be like communal kitchens. So they would have the farmers that would go out in the fields and stuff and do all the crops. But they would have a set group of people who worked in the kitchens and each kitchen would feed like 10 families. Average of four per family. So 40 people and they would eat five times a day. So they had breakfast, they had a break, then they have lunch and another break. And then they had dinner, but it wasn't like you think, like sit down for a long period of time. You kind of go, you sit down, you eat your food, and then you're gone. But it's very interesting. And some of these communal kitchens are actually still open and available to walk through. I don't know if we'll get to go through any today, but I just thought it was interesting piece of history. That's a big bullet. What is it? That's a 12 gauge. Oh, it's a thermos. That's where you put your booze in. Put the bourbon in there. That'll keep you at least for what, an evening? Yeah, maybe a couple hours. It's nice. You're saying I can have it? Is that what you're saying? Well, what's the price tag say on it? That's what I want to know. Does it come with that cool ring? You should keep that. Yeah, that's a free accessory. There you go. Just for you, baby. We just almost left the GoPro. And when we say we, we mean you. You were the last one in charge of it. Yes, we means me. I can't be trusted with things. No. We can't have nice stuff. No. Because I'll lose it. Yeah. Or break it. Yeah. I need constant supervision. Yes. Well, here's one of the race contestants. Hopefully a celebrity after the race is over. This is Kylo. Hi, Kylo. Hello. Oh, hi. Yeah. Maybe I'm getting to pet the winner. I don't even know yet. Or should I say the wiener? First time racing. Looking at the flyer for the 1974 Oktoberfest. And if you look really closely here, look at this. Campers welcome. Two dollars. Two dollars a night for camping. My kind of price. Quite a few people from Amana that served in the military. World War I and World War II. Hey, did you know that this is where the Amana appliances come from? I didn't know that. You just learned that. That was in the room all about appliances. I didn't know that until I came in here. Because it's a communal thing. They don't even get to choose like what they're going to do. They just picked a guy and said, look, check it out. We need a doctor, bro. So you're going to go to the University of Iowa and get that. And you're going to go learn how to be a doctor and then come back and you'll be our doctor. Oh, I'm sure they sent their smartest, most teachable person. So what you're saying is they would not have sent me. Exactly. I'd be off in the fields or like empty in the shitter with the big pole and bucket. Yeah, that'd be my job. Look, buddy, it's a communal thing. We're going to need you to go grab the stick. Leslie's looking at the yearbooks. What year is this? 1960. Let's pick out a random student to highlight. Allen. Allen Neubauer. He played baseball, basketball, he was in chorus, band, student council vice president, band president. He's on the bugle board, which I think is the name of their yearbook was the bugle. Student Librarian and National Honor Society. Allen rocked it. Thank you, Allen, for being such a stand-up guy. For your participation, you have won absolutely nothing. Yeah. It's almost time for the wiener dog race and the crowd is building in anticipation. It's just after 5 30. Just got done with the wiener dog races. We're hustling back to the truck because closing time is six o'clock for the bakery and we got to get that strudel. The chocolate almond strudel. Yeah, that's the priority. The strudel is the priority right now. And then we'll see if we can get to the meat shop. Exactly. All right, crisis averted. We made it in time. This is what we're after right here. Yeah, chocolate almond strudels. Operation strudel is complete. That's right. And now the meats. Bring on the meats. Oh, what a day, huh? It was a long day, but it was a fun day. We missed the meats. We did. The meat shop closed before we got there. The priorities, man. We got to the bakery. We got to the bakery. That's all that really matters. And now we're at Denny's. Yes. Because we're tired. And I'm not cooking anything. About an hour drive. Yeah. No, but we did have beer. We had a drink. Yes. Yeah. I even had a drink. Nice little beer garden there. Yeah. It was just a cool vibe. The whole town was really cool. It was good that we were at there. Perfect timing for the worst fest. Yes. It was like the best worst fest ever. It was the best worst fest. And who knew we'd run into so many people. Yeah. That we know why we're here. Ran into some Wagsters out here. Yeah. Ran into another channel out here. Yeah. And yeah, I had a good time. It's been an awesome day. The wiener dog races were awesome. Yes. They are so cute. All right. I'm hungry. Yes. I'm tired. All right. Stick around for a few seconds. Help us remember and honor a fallen hero. If you want to get involved with helping us help veterans while we're out on the road, everything you need to know is right down in the description. Appreciate you watching. See you next time. Bye.