McCall Peltier and I began one of the most memorable journeys of our lives to Munich, Germany for Oktoberfest.
It started with a six hour bus ride to Madrid. Followed by a two hour flight to Zurich, Switzerland. In Zurich we had a ten hour (overnight) layover, which left us sleeping on benches for the night... uncomfortable, smelly benches......
This is what we looked like in the morning........
EW! But even with our very few hours of terrible sleep and nearly broken necks we were SO excited to arrive in Munich and get to Oktoberfest!
We FINALLY arrived in Munich at 8am on Saturday morning. We were so fortunate to be able to stay with my beautiful friend Laura Reidner for the weekend, so she picked us up from the airport and took us to her house to clean up (we obviously needed to).
After much anticipation we finally made it...
Being there felt unreal... like we were characters in a movie. EVERYONE was dressed up in their authentic costumes; women in their "dirndls" and men in their "lederhosen". The other thing about Oktoberfest is the place to be is in one of the beer "tents"...I'm not sure if tents is a very accurate word considering they hold thousands of people... Anyways, people make reservations for those tents months and months in advance. We had no reservations. Fortunately, Laura has plenty of German friends and they helped us sneak our way in... so after escaping past the security guard, we found ourselves in a sea of... how else can I say this... wasted people dancing and singing on top of the tables.
I'm not one to drink beer, but considering we were at this cultural event..................... PROST! (cheers)
The beers were so big, that when we took a drink our faces were nearly completely covered, and my right hand (my beer holding hand) was bruised from the weight of the mug... it ended up being a good bicep workout too.
After meeting many wonderful Germans, plenty of dancing, and too much beer, Laura took us to the main center of Munich which was a really cool place. I would love to show you pictures, but unfortunately my camera lens had some beer on it and could only take blurry pictures :(
Needless to say McCall and I were exhausted at the end of this day... we fell asleep on the metro ride home, and had a wonderful nights sleep... But unfortunately we still didn't feel all too well in the morning. It made for an interesting/ miserable journey home....
Well I was the miserable one... McCall was "happy as a clam" as she likes to say.
Oktoberfest was such a fun and amazing experience that I will certainly never ever forget. Thank you Laura for letting us stay in your house and giving us an authentic experience. It was the adventure of a lifetime!
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