Oktoberfest 2013

Once again I find myself behind on the blog.  While we have a few topics to write about, I will start by skipping back to the end of last month/beginning of this month to write a quick entry about our 2013 Oktoberfest experience.

As mentioned in the prior post by Noah, we returned from our USA trip with colds.  He didn’t mention that we also returned to Oktoberfest in full bloom.  As it only lasts for 2 weeks (over 3 weekends), our colds would end up preventing us from partaking too much in this year’s festivities – our friend Angela can attest to this. 

An old college friend of mine (Angela) was able to book a last minute trip to come to Munich during the first week of Oktoberfest.  I told her we were glad to host her here, but we had work during the day.  I assumed we could join her in the evenings down at Theresienwiese (this was before the cold hit).  Well, instead all I was able to do was loan her my dirndl for the week while she connected with friends via Facebook to go to the festival with.  At least we were able to do one dinner with her before she left (at a restaurant, not a beer tent). 

Being sick that week also caused me to miss my 2 work outings to Oktoberfest, plus we weren’t able to join a group of Noah’s fellow DAAD friends when they went over the weekend.  Lame.

By week 2, however, we were feeling a bit better, and were determined to at least have lunch in one of the tents.  So the last Friday (a ‘brückentag, or bridge day, where Noah is forced to take vacation as the Thursday is a holiday), we geared up to go just for a few hours.  We’re pretty burned out on most traditional German food (meat and potato dishes specifically), so we picked the Fischer-Vroni tent where we could enjoy a nice steckerlfisch.  

After a maß of beer each along with our fish, we strolled the fairgrounds for a bit so Noah could buy his crepe.  However the weather wasn’t the best, and we didn’t want to catch another cold, so we called it a day and headed back home to enjoy our day off.   I think if this was our first year with Oktoberfest, we would have pushed ourselves much harder (and gotten much sicker), but luckily we were able to go multiple times last year.  Plus there is always next year!