It was the last Saturday of Oktoberfest, so we had to get down to the grounds by 8:30 am to join the masses of people waiting outside to get in. We chose the Lowenbrau tent (the Lion one) and when the Lion roared at 9am the doors opened and we got crushed through the doors. Seriously, I thought my ribs were going to snap and punture my lungs! All that and all the tables were taken already! So, I went to ask if we could sit with some people and the bar maid stopped me and asked what I was doing, I said I was going to ask if I could sit at that table, she looked me up and down and then said, ok, you sit there and then made the people shift around to fit us, sooooo lucky! It pays to dress like a Bavarian.
It was an AWESOME day of drinking delicious beer and eating weisswurst and pretzles and singing songs and dancing on the benches with the Germans at our table. Then we left the tent at 4pm to meet Jayanti at the Hofbrau tent to get us in the back door again and continued the eating and drinking until about 9pm to make it a full 12 hours! So much fun.
A glimps of the mass of people waiting to get in. (See the lion, he roars and drinks his beer every hour!!!)
The awesome band, played a mix of German oom papa music and other German songs, and English songs
Miguel and the German guy doing a strange double hand clapping dance
'Ein prosit, ein prosit der Germutlich-keit! Ein prosit, ein pro-o-osit, der Germut-lich-keit!!'
Miguel with German Denny
Trying to show how my glass chiped after too many prosts!
Back at Hofbrau with Jayanti
Not sure if Grant is happy or sad...
Oooh, ahhh...Oktoberfest!
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