The Oktoberfest entry

I have now reached the pinnacle of my life. I will never surpass where I am now. Or at least where I was last night. That would be standing on a table in the middle of a beer tent with a bunch of random Germans drinking beer and singing along to "99 luftbaloons". It was just amazing. I can't describe it to you really. A huge massive beer tent where there is just row upon row of tables and drunk people. At 630 pm. I'm not talking about slightly tipsy stumbly. I'm talking like face-plant into a pile if their own vomit drunk. Men, women, teens, everyone was hammered. The outside fair part is sort of like the CNE, rides and games and vendors and stuff. Add in like eleven beer halls, each the size of a football field and you might sorta get it.

Each beer is huge. It must be a litre and a half or maybe 2. And it's not coors light here people, I'm talking good real beer. Like out of my price range on a normal day. Each stien is 8.80€ each. Which is about 13$ or so Canadian. But it's like 3-4 pints so it's not that bad. You order from the beer wenches. (seriously, they're called beer wenches!) they carry about 8 or these huge beers. It's crazy. I really can't describe it much more.

They also had a live band playing on a huge stage in the middle of the hall. Full brass section and stuff. I expected the 'Hoff the make an appearance at some point. They play all sorta fun German music that you stand on your bench and dance to. Then they also will play a song that roughly translates to "I'm cheersing" repeated over and over. Then you stand cheers and sing. Then the surreal part happened. All of a sudden I'm standing there on the bench rocking out to "summer of '69"... What?! The sorta had like an English hour where they played everything you would want to hear. Rollin on the river, YMCA, hey Jude, and more. That was very strange.

I'm still in Munich now. Recovering. Here one more night then off to Budapest which I hear is a rockin good time. Should be fun.