OKTOBERFEST IN MUNICH

The front entrance to the fair grounds—this photo was taken at 7am when we got to Munich and people were already flooding into the grounds to wait in line.
David with beer at 7am in front of one of the 8 large beer tents and next to a carnival ride (the grounds are like a state fair---food, rides, and then these big beer tents stuck in random places).

Because we were there on the first day of the Oktoberfest there was a parade that went into each tent—this one was waiting to come processing into the big tent that we were standing inside.
Does life get any better than this? We enjoyed our time sitting in a this “small” tent…we were very lucky…within 10 minutes of when we sat down here this whole area was packed with people!
There was music, beer, and pretzels…it was wonderful.

Our waiter and our neighbors who were sitting next to us at our table—all 3 of these men were dressed in wonderful traditional German clothes and all 3 of them were a riot!
1/2m sausage on a baguette—again David’s version of heaven.
The inside of a big beer tent.
Our last and final small beer garden of the day--turned out that we ended up staying for 5 hours chatting and enjoying steins of beer with these crazy boys from northern Italy and an older Canadian couple who were camping their way through Europe…it was very fun and a little bit wild for everyone involved.
We made it through a wonderful day and we fell fast asleep on the 9 hour train ride home, only to get into Hamburg at 7am and go back to bed until noon! What a wonderful life we have!


We went on a night train to Munich and enjoyed a day filled with beer, German sausages, wonderful costumes, and lots of new things to see! We had a blast and we got back to the train station just in time to get on a night train to come home!

It was a once in a life time experience and we will never forget it—we hope you enjoy the photos as much as we enjoyed our weekend.