Let's Polka!

My family usually has a few parties each year, and often times we'll have a theme of some sort. Today, my mother put on an amazing little Root Beer/Oktoberfest party for us. As part of that, we had lots of polka music, and I learned how to polka. By the end of the night, my cousin Amelia and I managed to polka across the house — and not break anything in the process!

The party, being an Oktoberfest party, had beer (of the rooty sort). It wasn't just a root beer party, but a root beer tasting party. Using blind taste testing, all of us tried nine different types of root beer and rated them. I, along with about half of the others, unknowingly picked A&W as my favorite, over more exotic ones, such as “Virgil's” and “Sparky's.” A&W was the only one that we had not purchased at Straub's, an “up market” little grocery chain that we went to specifically to get root beer. I also found St. Louis hometown Fitz's and Route 66 rootbeer to be quite good. Some of the others weren't very good at all. One, I think it may have been the Virgil's, tasted like cough syrup, for instance.

Quite a night, at any rate.