The accidential antique sale visitor and the bucket list.

Thursday started with a single purpose, get a piece of Royer's pie. Along the way we would hit Monument Hill and the Kreische Brewery. We planned to spend the night at Lake Sommerville State Park.

Monument hill is dedicated to the 17 soldiers executed by Santa Anna in the legendary "black bean" incident.

The brewery came into play when a German stonemason named Heinrich Kreische immigrated to Texas and maintained the Monument, over time he built the brewery to utilize the water on the site.

We left Monument Hill just after lunch and the drive to Round Top for pie was about 20 miles in length.

Little did we know....

As we came into a very small town called Warrenton. The lighted sign to be ware of pedestrians should have been a tip off.

As we came around the corner into town we were confronted by thousands of people and traffic backed up going both ways. There were booths and circus size tents set up on both sides of the road a couple of blocks deep selling antique.

We had stumbled on the annual 10 day long Warrenton Antique Festival. Only it went beyond Warrenton and all the way past Round Top. About 6 miles.

We of course had to stop, but with less then a week to spend here we could do no damage.

We did though find Royer's, and because of the Festival the Cafe was closed.

Lucky for us (me) they had a booth set up with an assortment of pies. The people there could not believe we had come only for the pie and did even know about the festival.

BTW, the pie is close to a 10, if it had been warm it would have been. Check it off the bucket list.

Next we head for San Antonio.