So I met up with my sister at the airport and we headed to our hotel. It was pretty easy to get to and really nice- score! We checked in really quickly and headed to the fest. I heard that everybody, even hip young adults, go ALL OUT with their traditional German outfits. I didn’t really believe it, but it’s totally true! I’m going to put up pics to prove it, but it was just so funny.
I pictured a family getting ready at home and the teenagers would be like, “Dad PLEASE! DO NOT wear the god damn leiderheusen!” And then the dad would be all, “It’s tradition!” and the kids would be so embarassed...
Doesn’t it seem like that’s how it would go? But actually, the whole family dresses up and even the kids aren’t too cool for it. In fact, they are really HAPPY to look all ridiculous all together. It was really really cute.
Then there was the food. and the beer. OH MY GOD! You go to the HUGE beer halls and they are PACKED from front to back. They look like huge stadiums or something and they are just packed with people at tables. The waitresses (didn’t see any waiters all day) run around carrying ten 1-liter steins at a time and weave their way through all the drunk people without ever spilling. As a waitress, it was really cool to see. I think I could get the hang of it, but DAMN!
The big halls serve food but all along the grounds of the festival they have little food tents, like at a fair in the US. There are lots of different things to try, but they do repeat after a while. The main things are- all different types of sausages with mustard, grilled chicken, rotisserie beef (they put a whole cow on a spit), fresh fish sandwiches with onion, different schnitzel sandwiches, different sweets and rolls, and my fave- the soft pretzel! We tried pretty much everything and it was all SOO good! Plus you need heavy food to soak up all the beer, because you can ONLY order 1-liter at a time. WOW!
Needless to say we ended the night with a fab little buzz and made lots of friends- that we’ll never see again... But it was a really fun night. When we go back I want to go on some of the rides. No joke, they BUILT a roller coaster just for the fest! I’ll tell you all about that soon. :)
-H*
Pics from Germany: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2143651&l=ce105&id=22001348
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Love Germany!!!!
Glad to see you're loving Oktoberfest!!! Go on the roller coaster, it's amazing, but do it at the end of the night right before it's about to close!! And go on the swings too that go really high. They're fun!
Hope you're having a blast!!
Jeff
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