Oktoberfest im Munchen, Deutschland!

A few weeks ago I went to Munich, Germany by train with Rebecca and her brother Bill, who was visiting from Australia. My goodness! He had such a long plane ride! Apparently he was on the plane for like 30 hours!!! I am no longer allowed to complaign about my wee trips across the Atlantic!

We had a lovely time! It was such an experiance I shall not easily forget and the whole weekend was just too funny! We left on early Saturday morning from Zurich HB and traveled four hours before we found ourselves in Munich. We then made our way to the campsite of Rebecca's friend who was working for the Fanatics, an Autralian traveling group. Haha, they were great fun and I was adopted into their clan for the weekend and became an aussie, mate! Ha! About 5pm that evening found us walking towards the beer halls amidst all the various County Fair type games and rides. Rachael (Bec's friend) called another co-worker and by gripping each other's hands we were able to barely squeeze by all these people waiting in line for hours to get into the halls which were already far too full. Felt like I was VIP or something, lol. Once inside the hall, I just about died. It was too insane! SO MANY PEOPLE! And almost all of them were standing one the benches, laughing and attempting to sing while swinging 1 liter steins full of cold beer that had like two inches of foam served from these huge kegs. The "Fraus" bringing the beer to the tables were amazing. They had to be so strong in order to carry all these steins and had to put up with crazy drunks.

Each stein cost 10 euros and to think how much money they make in these halls in insane. I only had two that night and two the next afternoon, but wow, some people drank so much! I am not a huge fan of beer, but I will say that this beer was some of the best I've ever had so if one loves beer, then it is a must to come to Munich for an authentic Oktoberfest beer!

That evening after the beer halls closed we made our way out into the night walked around, won some gingerbread heart cookies from a "bloke" (or rogue ;-) ), danced in the crowd to "Sweet Home Alabama", and made our way back to our tent. I attempted to sleep, but ended up waking every hour shivering and praying the morning would come!!!! Finally dawn made her glorious apperence (:-P) and we had breakfast, helped clean up, and then made our way to another Hall which already people were wasted at like 11 in the morning. Anyways, after that and buying of a few gifts we ran to catch our evening train back to Zurich. We mostly just slept on the way back as we were so exhausted and the train was so warm. Actually rather suprising as I find it most difficult to sleep in trains, planes, and automobiles . . .

Overall, it was a fascinating weekend and if I could do it over I would make sure I bought and wore one of those drindle dresses. It was fun and I am immensely pleased I have my "Munchen Oktoberfest" sweatshirt/hoodie. :-D