Holy crap. Munich you are amazing!! I had the best two days in Munich, and it is up there with the best place in Europe so far.
We arrived at our campsite so pumped and ready to go for the next day - the opening day of Oktoberfest!! We got checked into our crappy little tent and the first thing we did was get bratwurst from two strange German guys at the campsite who got mad over all my coins but I was like whatevz haters ich liebe schnitzel and they got confused. Hahaha. We hoped on the next shuttle into town and had a walking your of Munich. Once the tour was over we bounced to find our outfits for Oktoberfest. Brendy got the lederhosen and I had the dirndl happening. Brendan even got really bad grey and green socks that were like ankle socks with leg warmers they were really strange. Once we were all outfitted up we headed back to the campsite to get an early night. It didn't really work. Neither if us got any proper sleep due to the freezing cold, random drinks singing until 3 in the morning and the guy in the tent next to ours picking up. We ended up waking up at 4:30 and decided to just get ready for the first shuttle out to Oktoberfest at 6:45.
We succeeded and it was go time! We were both so pumped I thought our heads were going to pop. When we arrived it was like nothing I had imagined. It's basically the royal Melbourne show based around beer. There are beer tents everywhere and there are rides and food stalls and it's just some sort of magic wonderland. I actually think it's the happiest place on earth.
Unfortunately our first day didn't go as we had planned. We followed the stupid tiny bald busabout guide to the Augustiner tent and didn't get in after being in line for four hours!!! We were so pissed off. He told us to stay in line with him while everyone else was pushing past and going around to the other side of the tent where they were letting people in first. Once the doors to the tent it was like being in a mosh pit. Everyone was pushing to get in and we were so squished. Finally we made it to almost the front of the line and they said they were full. I was going to punch the security guard in the face but he was giant and German and I was too scared. Anyway, there were six of us busabout people that were united by rejection so we decided to stick together and try and find a table if not in a beer hall, outside in one of the beer gardens. We managed to score a table in the beer garden at the löwenbräu tent, completely by fluke. We were walking past in attempted to get inside of the tent and I saw a table emptying up in here and was like a ninja. These four old wogs guys were also waiting and I sat down at the same time as them and called everyone over and we invaded. They got so mad!! One of them put their arm along the table as of to say this is our side and that's yours. We were like don't care just want to drink. Then they got up and went to a table up the back. We were all like yes! Table all to ourselves!! We got to see part of the parade when we were standing on the benches and our happiness and faith in beer was restored.
Once it hit midday, the major tapped the first keg and cannons were fired in the air for each tap that it took before it opened. 12 taps later and everyone cheered. Our beer lady Bridgette was the first to burst through the doors to the ever garden with about 10 beers and everyone cheered so loudly! It was amazing!! We became very fond of Bridgey very quickly. I told her I loved her and took a selfie with her and she danke-ed me and we shared a beautiful moment. Everyone lingered around the tables and were right on it when someone stood up because you can only get served if you're sitting down. We ended up being the table that helped so many people get drunk. From what I can remember, we helped at least 13 randoms get drunk, and I'm sure there's many more I can't remember. We tried pork knuckle - which is off its head, chicken - also off it's head, pretzels - as big as my head, donuts - also as big as my head and the one I was waiting for schnitzel! Yeah, I had no self control over the food at all. We also ended up having 4 steins each and having such an awesome day, even with the s***ty morning it began with.
The next morning we woke up and weren't even hung over. Whaaatttt?! How did we do that? We planned to go to Dachau concentration camp, but instead make an executive and mature decision to bail on that and spend the entire day at Oktoberfest instead. Woops. We began our journey in the hippodrome tent. It was our first tent out of our entire Oktoberfest experience and it was amazing!! It was decked out like a circus and there were horses hanging from the roof and s***. Not real ones of course. We have a mixed Bavarian plate for breakfast, which was schnitzel, meat and potatoes. It was awesome and had a beer of course. Then we moved on to our second tent of the day the Paulaner. That one was awesome too! There was a big brass band playing in the centre, and they were prosting (cheersing) and singing and dancing and the atmosphere was sick! They even had marching bands around the outside of the seating it was so cool!! We sat on a table with all random Italians though, and had no idea what they were saying or what was going on. After one beer at the Paulaner, we headed to the Augustiner tent. We met up with a few of the busabout people and the atmosphere in that tent was electric!! The tent was gigantic and it was packed out!! We had the best time in this tent. I linked arms and swayed with a table of Germans and I was wearing my don't hassle the hoff shirt in an attempt to win their hearts, because those Germans dig some hoff action. It worked too, one lady kissed me on the cheek a couple of times and took photos with me. I was in. I was standing up on the benches, dancing and cheering and it was just the greatest time I think I've ever had. I love Oktoberfest so much. After two beers in the Augustiner, Brendy required a bit of a breather and we stumbled outside to sit down. We leant up against a building and I attempted to stay awake while Brendan had a nap. Shortly after, I was woke up by a guy asking me for pills because I was "obviously wasted on something." My response was, "yeah, dude, beer. We're at Oktoberfest." And he swore and stormed off wondering where he could find some "f'n pills." Lovely gentleman. Brendy had a cheeky spew, which was nothing a bratwurst couldn't fix. We spent a bit of time stumbling around the grounds and bought a couple of steins for souvenirs and the headed into the höffbräu tent to check it out bit couldn't stomach another litre of beer. That tent looked amazing! It is the biggest of all the tents and it was going off. We headed back to the campsite not long after and passed out in our tents and had the best sleep we had of the three nights. The next morning we woke up feeling pretty seedy and had to get on an 8:00am bus to Prague from a random bus stop that we just managed to find. We were so sad leaving München! I wish we had more time there, but I can't wait to go back another day.