So I'm going to write a shorter post about just this weekend, because I want to tell you all of my shenanigans before I forget about Oktoberfest, but I do have an organic exam tomorrow.
So the weekend started out on Thursday at 10:00 PM. We went to the train station and caught our train at 10:30, and rode for about two hours to Leipzig. We had a five hour layover in Leipzig, so we ate a large amount of McDonald's food and tried to stay warm. We all did fall asleep, but not at the same time so we were able to keep our seats in McDonald's. I read a little bit of my book (Black Hawk Down), which was really good. Then our train came in at 5:00 AM, and we got on a four hour ride from Leipzig to Munich. We got into Munich at 9:45, and went to the bank and the bathroom and all that stuff.
Next we walked toward the festival by following all the people in dirndl and lederhosen. I must say, lederhosen are strangely attractive on some people. We walked all around the festival. It really reminded me of the state fair, but with large beer tents in the middle. We went on a very cool roller coaster, and I missed Six Flags and wanted to go to Cedar Point. Then we were hungry, so we went to a beer tent.
The beer was really expensive, but quite delicious. I also had a really good pretzel. We had a lot of fun just listening in the beer tent, listening to the little polka band play on the platform. Be sure to check out the pictures on my photobucket, they look like postcards! Then we went back outside and wandered around and met a lot of people in the festival. We saw some of our other group, and generally had fun.
Then it was about ten thirty and the festival was shutting down. We decided to get something to eat at a small place until about 11:30, then went to wait in the train station until 5:00 AM again. It was very cold in the train station, so we all snuggled together. We saw a group of people that had brought a tent (so smart!). We got back into Dresden at 11:30 AM on Saturday, and I slept most of Saturday away to recover and be warm.
Sunday was laundry, phone calls, and studying day, and today is final-cram-oh-my-goodness-first-organic-test day (and we have our first lab tomorrow, which the timing really pisses me off). I'll let you know how the exam goes, but I need to get back to work!
Nice. I liked Munich much better than Berlin. My only regret was having a little too much fun at the Hofbrauhaus and deciding to sleep through a day trip to Auschwitz the next day. Oddly, I spent most of that day reading a Tom Clancy Novel, so there must be something about military exercises and Munchen. Good luck on lab and test!
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