All of the scowling, but easier for us to maintain!
So, the day is finally over. A couple of Augustiner Vollbiers, some Kräuterkremesuppe (herb creme soup) and a Rindergoulasch (beef stew) from Görreshof and a snifter of Highland Park 18 and I am starting to contemplate sleeping.
Oh, and to the crew from Connecticut – Gruezi!
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– October 16, 2003
Sent to me by a friend from the states…
Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing in the woods. A small tree begins to grow between them. The beech says to the birch: “Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?” The birch says he cannot tell. Just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling. The birch says, “Woodpecker, you are a tree expert. Can you tell if that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?”
The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree. He replies: “It is neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch. It is, however, the best piece of ash I have ever put my pecker in.
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– October 16, 2003
October, 4 the final Saturday of the Oktoberfest. As you can see, it was raining. Horribly. And we were without an umbrella. The pictures are courtesy of a colleague of mine, Terry Stocking.
Outside Schutzen… this was minutes before a bunch of drunken English speakers decided to start throwing glasses.
Paulaner, and our first Mass of beer of the night.
Denim at Paulaner
The crowd at Löwenbräu…
And a parting shot of us.
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– October 16, 2003
Well, unfortunately, Oktoberfest is over. 6.5 million liters of beer sold, 6.1 million visitors, 16 days. When all is said and done, we were able to attend 8 times, celebrate my 30th birthday; sit at Löwenbräu festhalle, Ochsenbraterei, Augustiner festhalle, Schutzen and Paulaner Winzer Fahndl; consume a small flock of chickens; drink a respectable amount of beer (though not as much as people assume, and never to the point of excess); and learn a whole set of new traditional drinking songs (like Country Roads and Hey Jude).
But all good things must come to an end. There might be a few new pictures coming from visitors and friends, but that is pretty much it for this year’s Oktoberfest. 50 weeks until next year’s fest!
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– October 6, 2003
Us in full tracht!
Pictures from Schutzen Festhalle, Friday the 3rd.
Security starts to shut off access to the seats well before noon…
A Wies’n lunch
The Brez’n stand
No reserved seats in this section… and the wait staff will cram more people into the table if there is even a hint of space
A server with a tablette full of halbes hendl (half chickens)
A beer meeting with an early demise. Not ours, of course.
Random pictures from the table
Janet
Look at my man-boob!
The end of a fantastic afternoon at the Wies’n
Since Friday was a public holiday, Janet and I made our way back to the Wies’n for our last afternoon at Oktoberfest. By the time we arrived at 10, the tents were pretty full, but we were able to get seats at our first choice, Schutzen. The food was fantastic, the music was fun… and the bathrooms were some of the worst that we have experienced at the Wies’n. There was only a single door into the men’s and women’s rooms serving as both entrance and exit… and the line into the women’s was so long that half of the space in front of the urinals was filled with women trying to figure out how to be able to… well… as we would say in camera terms, point and shoot.
Still, a fantastic afternoon at the Wies’n.
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– October 5, 2003
Office Party. The Wies’n. Organization will come later.
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– September 30, 2003
