Oktoberfest 2005

... *Partytime* ...

LOL ... Did you know that the average birthrate in south Germany - 10 months after the world-famous "Oktoberfest" is about double as high as usual!?
Isn't that great - Even with 5 liter of beer inside, we are able to grow the population. And I was wondering about the results of the "Pisa studies" ;) ...

Anyway - this year I was finally able to go to the "Wies'n" again - and please don't use my introduction sentence not as a wink ;) - Nobody got pregnant.
Mid of September, I got out of work for 1 week and flew back to Germany to see my family and friends again. Pretty good time - especially seeing Sandra again, after such a long time felt quite good.
I've been planning this trip quite a while already and so a lot of people were involved and finally joined our international group. My job was to play the guide for 4 crazy - spread around the world - guys. Xen (London), James (Seattle), Jason (New York) and Paul (Paris) came down to Paris and I picked them up in Munich from the airport.


First item on the agenda was of course to hit the 'everywhere else in this world soooo famous' Autobahn. With every 10 km/h I was driving faster, the people in the car got more and more silent...
Nevertheless, we finally arrived at Metzingen to get a lot of shopping done - I just love my new shoes ;) ...

In the evening then, I introduced all of the guys to my hometown (a really tiny place close to Ulm - in the middle of Stuttgart and Munich) - and we were able to celebrate the re-united VFKK crowd.

At 5 am we had to force ourselves out of the club and enjoyed James driving skills ;) ... (We are not in USA!)

Saturday:
The day has come - Let's go to the Oktoberfest! We left my home a bit later as planned, but we made it down to Munich. Man ... the weather sucked and our heads were still 'very slow' ...
We went to the Wies'n and tried to get into the tent where our other friends were inside. It was raining - cold and as you can propably imagine, our mood was not the best.
After waiting for 30 minutes, we left and went straight to the Hofbraeuhaus to get some food and other beers there. Day was rescued and we had a lot of fun.

On Sunday, we went again and were then also allowed to get into the tent, where everybody enjoyed another round of german beer / pretzels and chicken. *yummy*

- About 4 hrs later everybody was back on a plane -

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As I got asked about 20 times - here the explanation, why the "Oktoberfest" takes place in "September" ...
The first Wiesn was on the 12th of October 1810 - for the wedding of king Ludwig I. - it was basically a huge horse race, which was such a big success, that they've decided to do it again and again. (imho: a very good decision ;))
The simple reason, to move the festival to end of september, was just to have better chances of good weather.
Good weather --> more people --> more food / drinks --> >MorE MoneY<

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Special thanks again to Manuel for letting us all stay with him & of course also to my parents for the whole week, they've welcomed me back home!

More picture - as usual - here!

Ste[ph]an