Wow do I suck at updating this...

But I'm gonna try to be better. I have a million things to update, so I'm gonna do them in separate posts, to make reading easier (I hope)/I have no idea who actually reads this haha. This one will be about....



OKTOBERFESTTTTTT!!!!

(aka the greatest celebration ever)

  Also, JONATHAN CAME TO VISIT!

So basically, it was a great week. I left for Oktoberfest on Friday and met J in Munich mid-afternoon. We weren't quite ready for Oktoberfest yet so we did some sightseeing instead, which I'm actually quite glad we did. We went to the Nymphenberg Palace, which I had studied in architecture at Conn so it was cool to finally see some of the stuff I learned, and to realize I actually remembered some of it!

Rough life to live in that place, right?

Then, Saturday was OKTOBERFEST DAY. We woke up super early (7:00) to be at the tent by 7:30. It was a bit excessive, but in the end, totally worth it. We were inside the tent by 9 am and drinking beer (see above) by 9:30. Kinda gross, but the beer was so good it was okay.

That's a pretty good view of the tent by around 11 am. Absolute debauchery, and so much fun. People getting on tables, singing, cheering, having a blast. And the beers are HUGE. But delicious. Some of our friends joined in with others in standing on the table and chugging a beer...luckily they finished theirs or there would have been plenty of booing!

And, there's Ata...drinking like a champ.

So after enough time in the tents, we decided to explore the festivities. But first, drunk as we were, we of course needed food. We bought two half chickens, gobbled them up as fast as we could despite their burning temperature, and were on our way. (Btw, if anyone is headed there in future years...GET THE CHICKEN. Worth whatever on earth they charged). Because I'm me, we of course had to hit up the ferris wheel, and while J recovered from the beer, I was loving the view:

After much exhaustion, we went back to the hotel and passed out. Best. Nap. Ever. We finally rallied and went out to meet up with a kid J knew from law school along with his friends. Grabbed a beer with them after some good food, and then went back to the hotel and slept.

The next day we planned on going back to the tents, but were way too exhausted, and instead did some more sightseeing. We went to the English Garden, which was really nice and included the Chinese Beergarten which was really cool to see:

And then we went back to Nymphenberg to see all the pavilions, which was really cool and again proved to me that I actually did learn something in that God-forsaken architecture class freshman year. After an amazing weekend, we headed back to Praha.

J was in Prague for 3 more days, during which I took him to the Castle, the Lennon Wall, Mala Strana, the Charles Bridge, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some more. We didn't go anywhere too crazy at night, but he got to see U Sudu which was fun, and resulted in a drunken me thinking that consuming two fried cheeses was totally acceptable. (NOT.) It was an amazing week and I'm so glad he came!