Apparently out here in these small towns in South Dakota, there is this occasion called "Hot Dog Days". Tyndall has one every year, along with most of the other towns around here. It's advertised on the radio, people spread the word, and it's considered the preliminary to the ultimate Czech Days which will be held next weekend in the next town over (Tabor). So, at these Hot Dog Days they close down Main Street and all the businesses grill hot dogs and hand out beer or cool aid for free! Each business tries to "out-do" the other by having the better dogs or toppings. They take their hot dogs very seriously here. There weren't ANY store bought hot dogs in sight. Everything was homemade from the butcher. Different flavors, different colors and different toppings. It was certainly the most unique celebration I have seen yet! Of course, there were bands playing, I believe there were three. ALL of them were polka bands and ALL of them had fairly old members. I'm guessing a lot of them were in their 70's. You could tell who had been raised all their lives with things like this because there were old couples sitting on the side of the road in lawn chairs just watching the festivities. They seemed to be in their element. :)
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| Fire Truck! I have my scrubs on because I worked that day and they picked me up and we walked down town. |
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| Cache trying to put my sunglasses on his head |
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| A sample of the cars at the car show section |
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| One of the Polka bands |
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| Cache loved the hot dogs! Mustard face! |
Also, the day after Hot Dog Days is the city wide Rummage Sale here in Tyndall. Apparently they take their rummage sales very seriously too because when we went walking at 9 am there were plenty of people out with their cars trying to hit the sales early so they can get the "good stuff". I was told that most of the sellers pack up shop at noon, so we thought we'd look while we were out. We didn't find a whole lot, but Cache did get a few books and some toy tanks. But he did find something that he seems to love for only $3!
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