So anyway, Lena and I went back to her dad's girlfriend, Helena's, apartment where we met Lena's sister, Vroni, and got ready to go to Oktoberfest. It was really nice to just sit around with the girls and gab while we drank a little wine and got our dirndls all together. When Lena and I went to Oktoberfest we walked on a path through the woods and it was quite lovely. Very cold, but lovely nonetheless. We walked in right next to the huge statue of the queen (I'm assuming it's the queen who's wedding was celebrated with the Oktoberfest...but I may be completely wrong....it may be a Roman or Greek Goddess because it stands in front of a huge Greek or Roman building....so who knows.) The statue is incredibly huge and looks out over the Oktoberfest area. There is a huge staircase up to the statue where we had our picture taken in front of the festival.
Then when we were at the bottom of the staircase, taking pictures of the statue on the hill, a guy came over and told us that we were "taking too much picture and not enough drinking." We told him that we were planning on getting so beer but we didn't know if we would be able to get a seat in a tent somewhere. See, something I didn't know before is, if you want to drink beer, you have be seated in a beer tent, but it is really hard to come up with a seat in a tent because they are sooooo crowded. So anyway, he said "Well I happen to have a table with friends and if you want to you can follow me right now and share out table." Now, I'm not really sure if a mass of beer is worth sitting with like 10 drunk Italians in real life....but this was Oktoberfest....so it was worth it! It was pretty fun for just a little while because they keep cheers-ing eachother on almost every sip. Silly drunk people. They also bought us each a beer, so it was worth it to hang around for a little while. Eventually I said to Lena "hey, we need to go find your sister, right?" wink, wink. And we scurried out of there promising to return later and never doing so. Haha. Such is Oktoberfest!
Then we walked around the entire festival while we ate pretzels, my favorite roasted almonds, crepes with nutella, and ice cream. We shared all that stuff, I promise! Then we went on the biggest roller coaster called the Alpina Bahn and decided to go home. It was so cold there, it just wasn't worth staying any longer. Nobody even saw that we were wearing our dirndls because we never took off our coats! Also, Lena had a gimpy leg because of a very swollen knee, so it was better to get her home rather than keep walking around in the cold. But it was overall, I would say, a very successfull trip to Oktoberfest. Other people may not say so because we didn't get completely smashed.....but I enjoyed it! (:
Now for pictures: Here's the big statue I was talking about.
And this is, of course, Lena and me in front of the festival grounds behind us. The beer tent right there on the left is where we were drinking with the Italian guys. So funny.
This is apparently one of the most famous bakeries of Munich....or something like that. (:
The Lowenbrau beer tent:
And the Alpina Bahn: Which, by the way, was much bigger and faster than it looked....we found out the hard way.....and payed 5 Euros for it! (Approximately $7.50)
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