Catching up, of course...

The Tent

So since I last wrote I had been looking forward to Oktoberfest, what a fun time. My roommates Bri, Melanie, Kim went as well as my friends Stefanie and Elyssa. We had a great group.... it all started on the bus ride, a relatively short one actually, about 5 hours with a few breaks along the way including a stop to a gas station where I looked at the pastries that were covered in fruit flies.... They are EVERYWHERE here. We arrived at 11:30 at night and found a place to stay called "The Tent" and it was literally a huge tent with tons of bunk beds in it, you get a number and you go find the coordinating bed and they also give you 4 wool blankets and thank GOD because it was freezing the night we got in. People underestimate how cold anything around 45-50 degrees is to sleep in....

We bought sleeping bags and I ended up sleeping in 2 sweatshirts, socks sweatpants then had my sleeping back and 4 blankets on top of me and didnt move all night. So we woke up the next day and figured out that Oktoberfest didn't start until Saturday and it was Friday.... rookie mistake. So we decided to walk around Munich for the day, which ended up being a great choice, it was my favorite day we had there. Munich is pretty modern, definitely not as beautiful as Prague though, well, nowhere is :) We went to a beer garden in a park that was super beautiful, we walked around it and a good sized river runs though a part of it and there are super tall trees shading most of the paths through it, we ended up at The Chinesischer Turm which is the most well known beer garden in Munich and its pretty neat.

In the Beer Garden Park, gorgeous little river

There was an outdoor buffet sort of place to eat that was serving typical German food, rotisserie chicken, sausage and hotdogs, these amazing "country potatoes" with cheese and onions ohhhh that was my favorite thing about Germany lol . There was a traditional band played in the hut every few minutes and we just sat in the park eating and drinking beer while enjoying the perfect weather, it was 

a great day. We then checked in to our second camp that we ended up staying in for 2 nights, Weisencamp.....

Chinese Hut

The story of Weisencamp.... oh boy. First of all, never stay there. We finally got out there, mind you this was a camp, 13 miles out of town in the middle of who knows where in Germany, it was an old, overgrown stadium filled with tents. Usually this would be kind of cool but under our circumstances, it wasn't. I am not normally a big camper but camping unprepared is even worse. Luckily we brought sleeping bags but no pads.... So sleeping on the ground was awful. We paid 50 Euro each (there were 3 of us in our tent) for 2 nights and all we got was a tent on the grass. It would have been fine had it not poured rain both nights we were there and the second night it poured so much so that water seeped through the bottom of the tent, there was a puddle on the inside of the tent because some drunk idiot fell into our tent in the middle of the (still raining) night and the rain fly came off on part of it so I slept in a puddle. All of my clothes were wet, I didn't bring any kind of boots so I was walking around at 7 in the morning when we left back to Prague in my soaking wet Toms, shorts because both pairs of my pants were wet from being in the tent puddle and I slept on top of my sweater so that was wet too. It was awful lol. F the rain I'm from Colorado!! 

Beer Tent

Crazy Rocket ship ride

The fun part though, the actual Festival.... So we woke up the morning of the fest and didn't actually leave the camp until 9:30am, we got there and kind of watched the parade amidst a sea of THOUSANDS of people.... You couldn't really even stand still unless you were street side where people weren't trying to push past so we didn't get to see much of the parade.... But we walked around on the side streets which was cool, Oktoberfest is a city in itself, there are 12 beer tents, and they aren't tents they are legit buildings, HUGE buildings filled with tables and decorations and stuff. ALL of them were full of people though, you literally had to be in 
 line at 5 in the morning to get a spot in the tent and you can't get a beer unless you are in a beer tent sitting at a table so that was something that would have been nice to know before but hey, I went for the experience of the 12 euro beer, crazy carnival rides and huge hotdogs. The only ride I went on (because it was 8 euro....) was this rocket ship one where you sit in the seats on either side of it and they flip the ships upside down as soon as you get on and then lift you up into the air while the whole thing spins. So as your barrel rolling on the rocket ship you are also spinning around like on the swing ride. It as fun, the carnival rides in Europe are nuts compared to US ones :) If each ride wasn't so expensive I would have gone crazy! 


My roommates got a little drunk while we were there, we met up with them and this is what I got... ;)

Love all of my roomies haha

Sometimes we just need to take a little nap and not go on the rides :)