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Many booths were set up with beautiful goods, ranging from artesian steins, jams, handcrafted jewelry, woodcarvings, and stunning sculptures that also functioned as fountains. When we had our full of window-shopping after about 30 minutes, we decided to head over to the cheese and wine tasting. We listened to the speaker talk about pairings for a few minutes and sampled a number of cheeses such as limburger, harzer, weisslacker, and cambozola, commonly marketed as blue brie in English speaking countries. As we left, the girls wanted to try their luck at a pegboard sponsored by the Columbus Crew; my mother and I shared a hearty laugh when we saw that Hope and Kate had each won a beer koozie, and Julia had won a bottle opener keychain, much to their bewilderment. Before we left, we decided to try a pretzel, so we bought a large pretzel with sea salt and fennel seeds and shared it among ourselves. As we were heading away from the food court, Hope spotted a booth selling mini-pumpkin donuts. Having a few tickets left, the currency for purchasing food, we decided to get two servings to share among us as we headed toward the exit. As we walked back to the car, we talked about our favorite parts of the festival, Mom liked seeing the vendor’s booths, Hope favored the bow shooting, Julia and Kate loved the food, and I considered the Glockenspiel stage to be the main highlight of the