Wake up: Done. Drink water: …in progress. Check facebook for updates: Done. Have shower, eat food and proceed to live the day: Easier said than done.
9:56AM Wednesday 26 September 2012
Sitting here in the tent and listening to people around me fight their hangover/still drunken state, is making me feel better. It’s a little warmer in the tent and (sip of water) having a shower is a mission here. The shower block’s a basic shipping container with showers lining the walls, water all over the floor and not enough space to leave your dry clothes. I’ve spent the last hour wondering how important it is to shower this morning, while sitting on the floor of my tent. Memories of the past week of Oktoberfest madness have been circling around my head, and I was wondering how I’m going to remember all the cool people I’ve met, so I decided to write.
So far this last week has been broken up into 2 groups of ppl. The first Oktoberfest experience was a day out with Lisa and her 2 German friends Sonia and Ilorna. They are sisters. And a couple of other Aussie girls and a kiwi dude Patrick. But my favorite Oktoberfest experience was with the American girls and John. We were staying at the same campsite and partied together at the festival. Nicole (Shirt off, it’s getting hotter in the tent), Izzy, John and Ashley from Connecticut, are on a 2-month Euro trip. Kate Hudson, or Karleigh as she disguised herself as, Blair and Kerry had been travelling Europe and Oktoberfest was their last hoorah. They call California home. We had a great time and we called it our Oktoberfest Family. They all invited me to come and stay with them when I’m in the states, which I’ll happily take them up on. We went to 2 tents I think, I can’t really remember. The first one was a large looking retirement home with the odd retiree enjoying a nice quiet beer. A Stein cost €9.20, but in true Oktoberfest tradition each beer is paid for with a tip, so each beer cost €10. We had one beer with the oldies and I’m sure our table was the life of the place. There were 7 excited American girls trying to talk over each other and John and I. Once we had our first beer we left for a livelier tent. Hofbräu or HB was the second tent and this is where we had all the fun we don’t remember. We sat outside for a while and when it rained we stood inside. The lovely beer maids still brought us beer (people say they won’t serve you beer unless you have a seat) and we laughed with lots of random people. Lunch was served at 4:44 (Thanks digital photo files) and I think we left around 6.
It’s time for a shower now I’ve got past that “hangover feeling”. 10:36AM and I’m off to shower and Drink beer long into the night.