So, the long awaited Oktoberfest update was delayed because – dun dun na na na – I went back! As I’m writing this, it’s the night after I got back from my second day at the festival. This might actually be posted significantly later, because I’m going to wait until I can get to an internet cafe to post this, because I want to use photos and I don’t want to triple my host families bandwidth usage like I did last month (Whoops).
ETA: Sorry these posts are so late. I’m not really content with how they’ve come out, but I’m just gonna post ‘em and move on. As always, there are more pictures at the flickr account linked on the sidebar.
The First Day (Monday, Sept 24)
The first day, I met up with this one guy named Chris:
Who is an American expat in living in Vienna. He wonderfully invited me along to meet up with a group of other Americans that travel to the ‘Fest every year. (And can be found at havebeerwilltravel.com. Seriously.)
Most of our time was spend in the Hippodrome tent:
which was apparently very exciting for me to try and photograph, because I seriously have about 15 photos of just the inside of the tent. And that’s after I cleaned out the ones that were just blurry beyond recognition. We were sitting right next to the band, which was surprisingly way more awesome than annoying.
Points of Excitement:
1. The documentary crew:
There was a documentary crew filming something about beer. I didn’t really get the details, but I do know that I gave them my e-mail and HEY GUYS I MIGHT BE IN A PASSING SHOT OF A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT BEER. You will be updated if I hear that it’s actually going to be broadcast.
2. At some point in time, this happened:
Which, if you can’t tell, is the accordion player being hung upside down on a board. He then, of course, played a song, while upside down.
3. I almost got away with stealing this hat!
Which actually belonged to the drummer:
Who threw it and it landed on my head! I felt the the rules of serendipity demanded that this meant the hat was now mine, but apparently the drummer disagreed, because he dove over the barrier and stole it back when I went to the bathroom.
Bastard.
