Oktoberfest

Friday afternoon I left for Munich to go to Oktoberfest! I went with my friends Gillian and Damien and their friends Olivier and Grég. We stayed with Thomas, a friend of ours from Glasgow who lives in Munich. On our way into the city we drove on the autobahn—no speed limit—so we tried 220 km/h. Very fast and very fun. We didn’t stay at the speed for very long because it was dark and the roads were wet from rain. The 9 hour drive put us in Munich at about 1 am. Poor Thomas had just gone to bed when we arrived.

Bright and early the next morning we woke up and headed to the Paulaner tent. We waited in the rain for 30 minutes but finally were let into the tent. Some of Thomas’s friends had saved us seats and after we found them we ordered our beer! Now, in case you don’t know this about me already, I love beer. Love it love it love it. So when the woman brought us all our very very very large German beers, I was very excited. Before long, we were on our second glasses and having a great time. We were all meeting our neighbors and the boys were talking to all the pretty German girls in their pretty German dresses. Around 5 we decided that it was nap time so we head back to Thomas’s apartment. We all had about 4 hours of sleep and had been drinking beer for8 hours, so we slept until 9:30 that evening. Then we woke up got some dinner and hit the town till the wee hours. Truly an epic day.

We woke up late on Sunday, got ready, had some lunch and left Munich. Leaving Germany took FOREVER because the highways were under construction. The boys in the car spoke French the whole time as I tried desperately to understand. Alas, I did not comprehend much. I can get words here and there but I couldn’t keep up with the fast, colloquial conversations they had. It did give me a chance to observe the beautiful German country side though! Finally we made it to France and, 5 hours later, to Paris and then I was home (2am). Monday was an easy day for me so I took a nice long nap after the kids went to school. Pictures of my weekend are here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Christy.Cork/Oktoberfest?authkey=Gv1sRgCOSTpsucn_DmfQ&feat=directlink

Thursday I start school and I’m very excited to meet some people and learn some French! And have an excuse to go to Paris twice a week. Good bye everyone!! Till next week!!