Heyy Heyy Babay...

If you’ve seen the movie Octoberfest you may think you have an idea of what Octoverfest would be like. Beer. Lederhosen. Beer maiden outfits. Singing. German chanting. Well that’s just about accurate, except for the Das Boot part. But on top of everything the movie portrays it was a massive carnival with beer tents (more like houses) and rides, and food booths (chocolate covered fruit my personal favorite, but Victoria’s had loved the hot dogs and roasted chicken). It was by far much more than I had imagined. It made Craigsfest look like a joke.

The crazy Amsterdam guys we met

We spent most of our time inside the Hofbrauhous Tent raising our liter beer glasses and singing “Heyy, heyy babay, oh, ah. I wanna knowwwww if you’’ll be my girl”. A few other popular songs of choice were Sweet Home Alabama and a German drinking song that translated to, ‘Lets drink drink drink’ (not the most clever song). The atmosphere was unreal and its hard to describe the amount of people there. But somehow Mara and I ended up sitting next to a group of Italians and Dutch. The Dutch guys were dressed all out in Lederhosens. I got to talking to them and found out they’re from Amsterdam and they even offered to hook me and my friends up with tickets to an Ajax game. (I will definitely be taking them up on that offer)! Here are some pictures from Octoberfest to give you an idea of how crazy it was!

View of Octoberfest from above

The Church we went to

On Saturday the tents were full so Mara, Jaclyn, and I did some exploring. We hung out at the carnival and then made our way over to St. Johns Church not too far from the festival. The church was famous for being stuck by a plane, which caused the death of around 30 people. We ended up walking up, through the narrow staircase, 200 steps to the roof. From there we were able to see Octoberfest and a view of the city. It was incredible.

On Sunday, we got to spend the whole day wandering to a different part of Munich. We ended up taking the underground to the Olympic Village. In 1972 Munich held the Olympic Summer games (this was also where the massacre happened when the Israeli team was taken hostage). I had never seen park built for the Olympic games so I was in awe the entire time. It was also crazy to see the track where Pre had raced and was shorted of a medal in the 5000. I was in track heaven. We ended our time in Munich by checking out the BMW factory, right next to the stadium, and then headed to the train station for the 11 hour ride home that awaited us.

Olympic Stadium...haha