Monday, October 6, 2008

Oktoberfest: Day 1=Day of hats

There are a lot of crazy hats at Oktoberfest and on the Tuesday we went, I wanted to try them all!




Daniel's hat




Jorgens hat...stole it for about 6 hours hahah






Crazy lion hat!



I even put up with some obnoxious Americans to take a picture with this hat! :D



Bruna liked hats too!





Ok technically, this isn't a hat---but its still cool!

Oktoberfesting: Day 1

Okay. Let me say to start off that any one that tells you Oktobefest is a liar. Or more likely just plain un-fun. Oktoberfest is the greatest drunken party EVER. seriously. It's great because its just a mass group of people, from everywhere in the world, that just want to get drunk and become friends. You meet a lot of random crazy people and make tons of new friends---especially if your name is bruna or melissa. hahaha.

So, the first day we went was Tuesday. Which was awesome. Its cool because it is ALOT less crowded--i.e. you can get into any tent you want with out a wait.

So on the outside it sort of looks like a county fair ground. And then you go into massive tents to drink.

The weather wasn't too great but it was still cool.


So a lot of different breweries make beer for the Oktoberfest (aka Die Wiesn to the Bavarians), so they had all these cool decorated carts with big barrels of their beer. They were pulled by giant horses, though and Bruna and I nearly got run over hahah.





The first tent we went into was the Armbrustschützenzelt. Ha ha now thats a tongue twister.


There we met up with Torbjorn (my norwegian friend I met in Oz)!!! and also his other cool norwegian friends studying in Germany.







At the next tent though we got lost from the norwegians and met some crazy steel worker german dudes.

They were hilarious because they kept sayings things like this (in a very thick german accent): Vee vaaant youuu for vonne night! and Veee are hooorny. hahahahah

On the plus side: We got free beer and i got a cool light up heart necklace from them.

On the down side: I left my phone with them after we ran off, and had to track them down at the pizza hut at the hauptbahnhof. hahahah they weren't very happy that we ditched them either :D



Luckily, in the end we did meet up again with our lovely norwegians. Of course not before, Bruna fell down a couple times and bought sausages and popcorn. hahah





but we found them at last! And partied the night away :)