Our last cruise of the year, the fall cruise, ended on a high note with lots of laughter and good times!  We had a total of 20 members attend this event.  We started out meeting at the Chula Vista Resort in the Wisconsin Dells on a Friday night and went for pizza at the Moosejaw Pizza in the Dells.  Saturday morning we were up early and started our one hour journey to the Wetherby Cranberry Farm in Warrens, WI.  We all loaded a school bus and journeyed back to where the cranberries were being harvested.  Our tour bus guide was one of the daughters of the Wetherby farm and she told us all about harvesting cranberries and things she did on the farm as a young girl.  When we reached the harvesting site, she had told us her twin boys and husband and others in the family were helping with the harvest and would be glad to answer any of our questions.  They were all very friendly and helped us understand how the cranberries are cared for during the summer and winter.  We walked around and watched how the floating berries were moved into a big tube that took them to the truck where they would be hand sorted.  This farm had over 240 acres and all of the harvesting would be done that next week.  Did you know that cranberries don't grow on bushes??  They are actually grown on vines, sticky vines, and once you move the vines back, there are many many berries on those vines.  Once the vines are flooded, a small tractor goes down the rows of the berries and vibrates the vines, the berries then float to the top!  Then all of the berries are rounded up to the big tube that takes them to the truck.