Oktoberfest Part II

Oktoberfest as many of you know is mainly about drinking. In my experience I saw several ways to handle this and thought it would be fun to share.
1. A person could wear a ridiculous neon green hat, consume too much beer and be passed out on a table by 2pm.
2. A person could slowly easy into drinking at one tent, get some food and/or dessert, check out some of the rides whether willingly or being pulled on by a friend, check out some more tents and drink a little bit more while getting to know some Germans, Australians, New Yorkers, and New Zealanders, then head out to get a pretzel and sneak off with some huge beer mugs for her brothers.
3. A person could drink, grab some food, drag a friend on to terrifying swings, a fun house and a haunted house, before continuing drinking and eating before making out with a guy from Sidney and throwing up all over the Night Train!
4. well, there are many different ways, but those three I saw first hand.
Jessie and I actually took different paths, but I'll leave it up to you to guess which one.


An early shot so you can see how big the tent was and it was a smaller tent.

Here is a lovely example of the Fair-like aspect of Oktoberfest. It is like a huge state fair celebrating beer.

We spent some time in the wine tent, I can't recall the name, but apparently it is the only tent that is not supported by a local brewery but a winery. It only had one option of beer, this great wheat beer.

The two of us right before the drinking started. This was at the wine tent were we started and were lucky enough to get seats at a table in the center. We met some locals from Munich and two guys from New York here.

Another shot of the tents before it got too crowded.

And as the crowd arrived. I think my bench was crooked or something.

A guy literally carrying crates of beer!

Our German friends

And our American friends.

Some of the Rides

The crazy swings that go up really high.

The first ride we went on. It was surprisingly fast and dark with weird Christmas lights inside arranged in what i thought was the shape of either a weird triangle or a Christmas tree. It was really strange but really fun.

Part of the Fun house we went in. There were many obstacles but these two tunnels were ridiculously challenging. Good news I ran through both without falling. I felt like i was running sideways and Jessie said it looked like it, but it worked. Jessie tried to follow but everytime i turned around I found here like the guy in this picture. I think her height made it hard or the alcohol in her.