Day 1 Colleen and I got off the plane bright eyed and ready to roll. We both were optimistic about how great of a time we were going to have, and were practically skipping through customs. Nothing was going to derail our awesome mood. Sarah and Rachael (friends from high school) were getting in about a half hour later so we decided to wait for them to get in. Since we were waiting anyway, Colleen encouraged me to go to the ATM and get some cash. Suuure, why not. Anyway, I walked over to the ATM, put in my card, and instead of getting money back, the machine said my transaction was invalid and took my card. Yeah, not the proper way to start off the trip. I went back to Colleen to explain the situation and she didn't believe me at first. The scary thing was Colleen and I have a joint account so even though she had her own copy of the debit card, they were essentially identical. It was going to be a long trip if the next ATM took her card like it took mine if there was a problem with the account. About the time we were freaking out about this, me with my pissed off face and Colleen with her worried face, Sarah and Rachael walked up. I think they were regretting their decision to meet up with us for a bit because we weren't too fun to be around at that moment. We all walked over to Airbrau, which is a beer garden in the airport, because a drink sounded really good at this point. On the way, we stopped at another ATM, this one right next to a brick and mortar bank, with the thought that if it seized our card we'd have better luck getting it back. The withdrawal went through though and we were all happy, but we still needed that drink. We stayed around the beer garden long enough to meet up with Emily and Laura, a couple friends that made the trip from D.C.
From this point on I'm going to switch out of standard Colleen and Nick blog mode, and into Oktoberfest: Special Edition blog mode.OktoberfestIntro/FAQWhy have a special edition blog mode?
Usually when writing about our travels, it's just me and Colleen. But 13 people went to Oktoberfest, so the way I write it up is going to have a bit of a different flow. This write-up will deal with the events from Friday, the 18th, through the morning of Monday, the 21st.. The write-up will be written almost exactly as I'd write all the other stuff except for animosity purposes I'm going to sub in the names of He-Man characters for peoples real names. Why He-Man? Why not?
Why the aliases?
Well, I don't want to brag or anything ... but we're all kind of a big deal. Our group consisted of 2 people that LIVE in NYC (well, Brooklyn/Queens) and at least one person that went to high school with a girl that who is now dating a guy in the CIA (crap, wasn't supposed to say that). Oh, and we also got the biggest upcoming Indian politician since Bobby Jindal. Anonymity is key when relaying these stories, though you're free to guess the identities ... good luck.
Yeah, we aren't that big of a deal but a few of the pictures that got posted on Facebook were enough that a couple people flipped out, requested the pictures removed, completely denied ever going to Oktoberfest, and swore all of us to secrecy. The names and faces of the not so innocent have been obscured in this blog so I could tell the true story of Oktoberfest.
I don't know the He-Man characters. How similar are your friends to them?
Although the write-up doesn't really have any ties to He-Man plot wise, I did choose people's alter egos based on similarities to their personalities so here is a quick overview of the characters. | Prince Adam/He-Man
Adam is kind of a douche. He is essentially Clark Kent in a pink vest to He-Man's Superman. For the purpose of this write-up we'll refer to Adam when that person is sober and He-Man when he has had a few … obviously as He-Man was a kids show the transformation process was a little different in the cartoon. |  | Teela
Teela is a stubborn warrior chick. You don't mess with Teela. Keeping with the Superman analogy, she's the Lois Lane character and she always gets pissed at Adam for disappearing when there's danger. |  | Cringer/Battle Cat
Cringer is Adam's talking cat and closest friend. To keep with the drinking theme, he turns into Battle-Cat when he's had a few. |  | Orko
Orko's a magician from another dimension. He is always up to mischief and serves as comic relief. He's a good friend to He-Man though. |  | Man-At-Arms
He-Man's military friend and Teela's adoptive father. |  | Sorceress
Wise mentor to He-Man, might have a thing for Man-At-Arms |  | Queen Marlena
Adam's ginger mom who was an astronaut on Earth who crash landed on Eternia |  | Gwildor
A misshapen ugly dwarf that no one really likes |  | Skeletor
He-Man's evil arch nemesis |  | Beast Man
Savage right hand man to Skeletor |  | Evil-Lyn
Evil warrior goddess, counterpart to Teela. They may have went to the same high school. |  | Two Bad
Two headed bad guy who is constantly fighting with himself |
Day 1He-Man and Skeletor have been fighting for control of Eternia for years, but even superheroes and supervillains need a vacation. So, why would these two mortal enemies and their subordinates decide to hang out with each other for a long weekend in Germany. Well, He-Man wanted to make some tent reservations and he needed a few more people to meet his numbers once Buzz-Off got swine flu and Fisto got busted on "To Catch a Predator." It so happened Skeletor and his minions had always wanted to go to Oktoberfest so they made up a truce. So, can two arch nemeses put their differences aside for a weekend of drinking German beer and polka songs ... we shall see ...
| After taking the train from the airport, they all needed to check into their hotels in downtown. They met up after the obligatory check-in and made their way to the first beer garden they could find with open seats. At this point, it was He-Man (though currently Prince Adam as he was stone cold sober), Teela, Skeletor, Marlena, and Two Bad. They found a table at the Weisses Brauhaus beer garden and ordered their first maβ. Maβ is essentially the German word for a liter of beer in a stein. They also ordered food, which in hindsight seemed to be a part of Skeletor's plan. As a back story, Oktoberfest happened to be falling on He-Man's 30th birthday, and Skeletor would like nothing more than to make sure He-Man did not have a happy 30th. Skeletor ordered wiener wursel, which confused the waitress who thought he had said wiener schnitzel, a much more common dish. The waitress brought out everyone's dishes, and when noone claimed the schnitzel the waitress got very upset. Skeletor stuck to his ground though, and insisted that he did not order the schnitzel, which caused the waitress to lose it and threaten to throw them all out. In Skeletor's defense, he did order the wursel, although the question is did he order that dish knowing the waitress would mishear him. Skeletor does have a rather hard to understand voice, probably because of the little known fact that Skeletor is, in fact, Canadian. | |
Skeletor taunts the waitress with the gang sign for Wiener Wursel. |
After being very tempted to do a dine and dash at the beer garden after the abuse from the waitress (He-Man vetoed the plan as he didn't think it was very morally sound), the crew walked around for a bit before meeting up with everyone else a few hours later. Cringer, Sorceress, Man-At-Arms, Evil-Lyn, BeastMan, Gwildor, and Orko all came in on various flights so Teela, always organized, had set a Munich landmark as a meeting spot. | Once everyone came in they all tried to go to Hofbrauhaus, which is one of the more famous beer halls in Munich. As it was the night before Oktoberfest, the place was understandably packed and there was a long line to even get in. Teela had remembered seeing an outdoor beer garden a few blocks away that was low key, so the crew started walking that way. By this time, Beast Man was getting very hungry as was Evil-Lyn. Before everyone made it to the beer garden, Beast Man snapped and tried to kidnap Prince Adam with the hope of ransoming him for a Bratwusrt and some pig knuckle. Luckily, Orko, Cringer, and Gwildor stopped the plan. |
Beast Man attempts to kidnap Prince Adam as Gwildor, Cringer, and Orko fight back. |
Soon after the attempted kidnapping, the crew arrived at the outside beer garden and very quickly found a table that could accomadate the 12 of them (13 if you count Two Bad twice). Everyone was able to order food (which calmed down Beast Man) and more importantly, people got beer. Cringer went behind the corner and downed two maβ for himself before transforming into Battle Cat and with his super strength bought a round for all 13 attendees and carried the glasses out in one trip. It was not enough, however, as Evil-Lyn immediately grabbed two maβ for herself leaving poor Orko beerless momentarily.
Five maβ in one hand is no problem for Battle Cat. |
Hanging out with He-man & crew drives Evil-Lyn to double fisting |
Orko, are you hitting on Queen Marlena? King Roland is going to be pissed. |
Once everyone had beer in their hand things began to loosen up. After a couple hours, groups began to intermingle and chants of "Prost!" (German toast) were happening between individuals that up until a couple hours earlier had only met on the field of battle.
Not safe for work picture of Orko and Cringer with no pants | Round after round of maβ appeared and disappeared as people were having a great time. Other tables gathered around, not sure what to make of the random assortment of people in the posse. However, after a little while things began to get a little out of hand in some respects. Orko and Cringer decided what the party needed was for people to remove their pants. They've asked me not to put up these pictures (Orko was especially adamant about these pictures never seeing the light of day) but in the face of journalistic integrity I have done it. Click the picture to the left to see what displays were going on that night. The link is obviously not safe for work. |
Beast Man's attempted kidnapping is forgiven once the beer starts flowing. |
Two Bad enjoys a couple of beers for himself(s) |
After a while, the beer garden stopped selling beers for the night. Battle Cat offered to give some people rides home, literally. People didn't seem to want the night to end, however. It hadn't actually hit midnight yet, and people wanted to be there to wish He-Man a happy 30th at the stroke of midnight. Two Bad was unfortuantely done for the night (the embarassment of being mistakenly mounted by He-Man didn't help) and he walked himself home. At this point, Orko was still hitting on Queen Marlena. This wasn't going so well, however, as even though Orko had been the jester in King Roland's court for years, he kept saying Marlena's name wrong. He called her girl, he called her Stacey, he called her 'her', he called her Jane. However, that's not her name. That's not her name. Eventually, he remembered her name. However, by this point the damage had been done. It looked like whatever chance a kwirky floating visitor from another dimension with no face had with a beatiful married queen had gotten even more abysmal.
Battle Cat tries to give Teela and Orko a ride home. The ultimate designated driver. |
A drunken He-Man mistakes Two Bad for Battle Cat and tries to ride him. Awkward. |
Everyone else got some beers from a convenience store and toasted He-Man when it was officially his birthday and then Beast Man and Evil-Lyn called it a night. The remaining party did what any tourist does when they want to experience unique new things in a foreign country ... they made a late night run to McDonalds. In their defense, in Germany McDonalds is BYOB and they have curry flavored sauce for their chicken nuggets.Day 2The second day was He-Man's 30th birthday and the official start of Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest didn't officially start until noon that day when the first keg was ceremoniously tapped in the Schottenhamel tent. The crew didn't have any tent reservations for the first day (more on that later) so they were just going to hit up various beer halls/gardens around Munich that day. However, they were going to go to the Oktoberfest parade at the grounds. Prince Adam and Teela tried to rally the troops but a few were completely out of commission and were sleeping in. I have a theory on why that happened. If you look below you'll see where everyone stayed(blue = good guys, red=bad guys). With Room 5, Skeletor was in a room with all good guys, putting everyone in the room on edge. Every other room was with like minded folk so they slept well. I have had similar phenomenon when I go stay with my brother who is a staunt Republican. Can't sleep a wink in his house.
Room 1: He-Man(Prince Adam), Teela
Room 2: Man-At-Arms, Sorceress
Room 3: Beast Man, Evil-Lyn
Room 4: Two Bad
Room 5: Skeletor, Orko, Battle Cat, Gwildor, Marlena
After the parade, everyone met up with the plan to go back to Hofbrauhaus for lunch. With Oktoberfest now going on, the thought was Hofbrauhaus would not be nearly as busy. We found a table with a good number of open seats and sat down. With the beer hall, the seating is bench style around large tables so a good amount of time you are sitting next to strangers. With large parties like ours, you just wait around until eventually everyone that was sitting there when you got there clears out, and then you have the entire table to yourselves.As a background story to Hofbrauhaus, Gwildor sent out multiple e-mails in the days leading up to Oktobrefest about the Hofbrauhaus song. The song starts out with "In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus, oans, zwoa, g'suffa!" which translates to "There's a Hofbräuhaus in Munich—one, two, drink!". That was about as much as the song that was actually sung at the actual Hofbrauhaus. The amusing thing is how adamant Gwildor was about everyone learning all the stanzas and implied we would be kicked out of Germany if we didn't know the full song. This was equivalent to saying that you couldn't go to a sporting event in the United States if you didn't know all words to all four stanzas to the Star Spangled Banner. Gwildor meant well though, so we didn't give him too much of a hard time for his overzealous push for us all to learn the full song.
Two Bad finds a girlfriend, Marlena is appaled. |
You'd never know they were mortal enemies |
When Cringer is attracted to another cat, he goes for it ... but I think he may be doing it wrong. |
| After Hofbrauhaus, we decided to walk up to the English Garden, a large park in the center of Munich. The English Garden itself has multiple beer gardens to choose from, and they were a little less crowded than the ones in other areas of the city. After walking for a bit in the English Garden (it's quite large), the crew came across the Chinesischer Turm Beer Garden. It's essentially a large outdoor beer garden in the shadow of a giant Chinese Tower. As with most beer gardens, you could also get some food. This place was serve yourself, meaning you paid a couple euro deposit on the maβ and then when you wanted a new one you just swapped out the glasses. This made everyone feel much less guilty about potentially walking out with a glass as a souvenir, as you wouldn't technically be stealing the glass as much as you'd just be losing your deposit. The group drank quite a few maβ until the sun had set which posed a few problems. Even though the group consisted of highly trained heroes and villains, they were still intoxicated in a foreign park with almost no light to guide them out. This would have been fine if they stayed on the path, but with characters like Orko and Battle Cat in the mix things get complicated quickly. While everyone else was staying in a tight knit group and walking out the way they came, Orko and Battle Cat were lagging behind. |
Man-At-Arms tries on an apron in the English Garden. Luckily, Eternia has a don't ask/don't tell policy |
Battle Cat, usually reliable, was frustrated by his apparent lack of strength when dealing with the glass maβ. Orko had dared him to break it in the park, a feat Battle Cat had thought laughibly easy. However, no matter how many times he tried to throw the thing down it would not break. By the time he had smashed the thing against a wall he was feeling pretty good about himself, but by this time Orko and Battle Cat had lost the group. Worst yet, Battle Cat sobered up and had transformed back into Cringer making the situation even more dire. About this time the rest of the group had emerged from the darkness of the park. | Prince Adam received a call on his cell phone from a audibly distressed Cringer and a giggling Orko. Every time Adam tried to get their current location from Orko, Orko would try reading the street sign but then start giggling at the perceived ridiculousness of German street names. Every time Cringer was put on the phone, he would start panicking and openly weeping. Prince Adam ducked behind a corner, pulled out his emergency flask and took a swig to transform into He-Man. He then tracked down the duo and met up with the group later, but not before the damage had been done. Teela once again was upset that Adam had disappeared with no apparent explanation. |
Adam, Cringer, and Orko rejoin the group under the glaring scrutiny of Teela |
After the group was reunited they all hit up one more bar. It was about closing time and besides beer the group decided to order a round of sake bombs. Amazingly, they went to the one restaurant in Munich that was giving free sake bombs out that very night. The only catch was that you had to ask to use their bathroom in order to get the sake bomb. I'll never understand Germany. Orko was the one that figured out that little trick, props to him.Day 3This day was all about the actual Oktoberfest grounds and the tents. First, a primer about Oktoberfest and the tents. The grounds are built up from scratch every year including all the fair rides and the beer tents. The beer tents themselves fall into categories of big and small. The small usually cater towards people eating meals whereas the big tents have food, but hold thousands of people and mostly are concerned with beer. For Oktoberfest, you can't just buy beer and walk around. Furthermore, you can't just walk into a tent and order beer from a bar. You have to be seated at a table and get served by a waitress. Even with the tents being insanely large, millions of people come to Oktoberfest every year and all the tents combined can hold about 100,000 or so. With that in mind, a seat in a tent is a valuable commodity. The tents themselves are divided into reserved seats and open. On the weekends, you can try to arrive around 8 a.m., wait for a couple hours for the beer to be served, and then stay at your spot all day but tent hopping is not an option as tents will actually close their doors for the day when they reach capacity (usually before noon on weekends). For the large Masters of the Universe group, who despite their differences actually wanted to sit together, reservations were a must.
Teela took care of all the reservations. The reservation system is its own complex animal. Essentially, the tents don't have online booking. For most places you fax in a request for a certain date and time. They will mail you back (or sometimes e-mail) you whether the request has been accepted. At that point, you have to do an international wire transfer for the money and then they'll send you vouchers in the mail that secure your spot and essentially act as cash to go towards your tab. Teela and Prine Adam had about a thousand euros worth of vouchers in their pocket at the start of the day so losing them would not have been good. Luckily, Teela is a masterful warrior and Adam is the secret identity for the most powerful man in the world. Also, they had a fanny pack.
The entire crew at the Oktoberfest grounds |
Teela made reservations for three tents. The first was Kalbs Kuchl from 12 - 3:30. It was a smaller tent that served lunch (and beer of course). The second tent was Kafer from 4 - 6:30. Kafer was a big tent which meant the full voucher went almost exclusively to maβ's. Finally, the last reservation was to Poschner's form 7 - 11. Poschner's was a small tent that specialized in chicken. Teela had a special place in her heart for Poschner's because it was the first tent that got back to her during the reservation process.| The group made it to the Kalbs Kuchl tent a little before noon and were seated. Everyone was at this tent except for the Sorceress and Man-At-Arms, since with the Sorceress being a vegetarian she probably wouldn't have appreciated veal being the specialty dish for the tent. At the beginning everyone was still a little drained from the day before. After a maβ or two everyone started to perk up a bit. The food that this place was plentiful and delicious. It was a double edged sword, however (figuratively, not He-Man's Power Sword), because the food was a good idea for a long day of drinking, but with Kalbs Kuchl being a low key tent and being stuffed with food and beer everyone started to lapse into a food coma. It was like celebrating Thanksgiving in Germany without football and awkward family scuffles. With about an hour left on their reservation, and having already had dessert, the crew decided to walk around a bit and see the grounds before having to head over to Kafer for the next reservation. At this point, it was time to say goodbye to Two Bad. He was never really on board with the temporary truce and decided to head over to Prague for a few days. With his departure, the group was down to 11. Also, Orko decided to sit out the Kafer tent, as he was going to use that time to try and come up with some lines to use on Queen Marlena to get her interested in him. |
Four steins is no match for He-Man |
Fun fact, Kafer hires He-Man's twin sister, She-Ra, to be a waitress during Oktoberfest. Makes sense, who else could carry 10 maβ at once like that. | Kafer was in the class of large tents, holding more than a thousand people, but it felt more like a large ski lodge than the giant wide open spaces common at the other large tents. The energy was not lacking, however. There was a large band playing within the tent and people were singing along with the songs and dancing on their benches along with the tunes. The crew was still a maβ or two away from bench dancing, however, so they took their seats and immediately ordered a round. When the beer came there was a bit of an awkward moment as She-Ra brought out the beers! He-Man had asked his sister to look after Eternia while he was out of town cause he needed to go to a funeral. She-Ra had declined anyway, because she had this job on the side. Beast Man didn't care about the family drama, he just wanted his beer. Everyone else agreed on that and soon everyone had a maβ in their hand and were happy.
A little bit later, however, there was a little bit of drama. Alcohol had started to flow into the veins and old prejudices surfaced. Evil-Lyn was eyeing the He-Man contingent and He-Man, being paranoid, got into a defensive stance with his allies. It looked like the truce was going to end at that table, and war was going to break out in Kafer. |
It got so ugly for a second that Queen Marlena shattered a maβ, with the help of the Sorceress, just in case she had to use it as a weapon. Just when all seemed lost, the fates stepped in and the band played "Country Roads" which caused all of the crew, bad guys and good, to stand on their bench, shout a collective "Prost!", and sing along. Apparently, Eternia is a very rural world and the song is very popular there. Popular, to the point, that it bridges the line across good and evil and everyone can't help but be happy when hearing it. It's essentially Eternia's version of "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey.
Evil-Lyn, spying on the good guys from behind the cover of a pretzel |
I knew there was something going on between those two |
Teela, He-Man, and the Sorceress lock arms to fend off any evil advances by Skeletor |
With everyone now getting along completely drinks began flowing again, and at one point a woman came by selling time with a breathalyzer, and a certificate with the blood alcohol score. Everyone took their turn, blowing respectable numbers like 0.11 and 0.08. These were numbers that meant people were having a good time but that noone could drive home ... conveniently everyone was walking home so no harm no foul. Beast Man then proceeded to call everyone amateurs and seized the breathalyzer for himself. He then blew a .342, which for humans means severe depression, unconscioussness, loss of bladder control, and possible death. For Beast Man being more animal than human, however, it meant that he was relatively sober. To prove the fact he stated the alphabet backwards, strolled along a sobriety line by walking on his hands, and repeatedly touched his finger to his nose while doing jumping jacks. Then, while everyone else was doing Jager shots, he calmly injected himself with a horse tranquilizer. Evil-Lyn also had an impressive score of .242, with the theory she used some of her magical powers to lessen the alcohol effects.
Beast Man celebrates his breathalyzer score |
Gwildor blows into the breathalyzer |
Eventually, it was time to leave Kafer meaning people had to make their way to the final tent, Poschner's. Beast Man went outside and immediately assaulted a group of ten drunk guys who called him Sasquatch. Apparently, since those beef jerky commercials came out he gets that a lot and it has caused him to have a short temper. At this point, He-Man and Teela discovered their camera was missing. He-Man and Man-At-Arms went back to Kafer while everyone continued on to Poschner's to find it. The camera itself was old, but it had pictures from the day including some very incriminating ones with Skeletor and Gwildor in a romantic embrace that He-Man didn't want to lose. For this reason He-Man suspected Skeletor of stealing it, but he couldn't prove anything.
He-Man brings Skeletor home to meet Mom |
Beast Man goes on a drunken rumpage until He-Man steps in |
Poschner's was another low key small tent, but with a slightly different feel than Kalbs Kuchl. While Kalbs Kuchl felt more like a restaurant, Poschners felt more like a big tent, only with less seats. The crew all ordered their chickens and devoured them as the chicken at Poschner's is delicious. A few eye witnesses even said they thought they saw devout vegitarian Sorceress sneak a nibble. Poschners also saw the return of Orko, which was a welcome addition back. Cringer took a cat nap. Gwildor made friends with the neighboring tables. In the end, the last few hours weren't as eventful as the time at Kafer but it was a nice way for the good and evil forces of Eternia to sit in a low key atmosphere, sing some beer songs, and get to know one another better into the night.
Ohhh Gwildor |
He-Man and Teela ... you can cut the sexual tension with a knife |
The Sorceress begins to think she might be a third wheel withGwildor and Skeletor |
At 11 p.m. He-Man and company were the last people left in the tent. At this point, the Poschner's employees were literally pointing at their watches and were scrambling around for a copy of "Closing Time" by Semisonic, which is of course the universal passive agressive way to get people to leave their establishment. Everyone got the hint and left the final tent and began to say their goodbyes. Beast Man and Evil Lyn went their way and the Sorceress and Man-At-Arms went the opposite way. Even after the weekend's truce, old hatreds die hard. However, there was hope. Skeletor joined He-Man, Teela, Gwildor, Battle Cat, Marlena, and Orko in going to a bar. Even though the beer wasn't being served anymore on the grounds didn't mean that there weren't bars in Munich that were still open.
The crew found a bar that was pretty close all of their hotels. The thing that He-Man kept his eye on was that Orko seemed to be successfully wooing Queen Marlena. He knew that Marlena and King Roland were having some issues, but he never dreamed Orko would be the rebound. After a few hours of being at the bar, He-Man was ready to call it a night. Orko and Marlena stayed at the bar but He-Man, Teela, Skeletor, and Cringer called it a night, essentially ending the truce when Skeletor walked into his hotel. Cringer had a flight to catch so he was essentially going to go straight to the airport from the bar.
Prince Adam stayed up a little bit longer and before going to bed, he checked his phone. Cringer had sent him a text from the airport saying that he had the camera the whole time. Later on Prince Adam found out that Cringer had put it in his saddle bag while as Battle Cat. When he sobered up the saddle and helmet magically disappear so he didn't rediscover the camera until he had a drink at the airport bar and turned back into Battle Cat. Prince Adam was relieved that Cringer had his camera and found it hard to be mad at him. He then climbed into bed and then fell into a deep, relaxed sleep. All was well. |
Why Yes, He-Man does prefer iPhones, though AT&T service in Eternia is crap |
This ends the Oktoberfest Special Edition portion of the blog. Now back to the standard write-up.
Day 4Apparently, going out to a bar after 11 hours of Oktoberfest wasn't the wisest move. Colleen and I tried to get out of bed but found we were unable. We wisely slept in until about 2 p.m. Once we finally got out of bed, we got our priorities strait and figured out we needed some lunch. Colleen felt guilty about how expensive Oktoberfest was so she absolutely vetoed stopping at a restaurant for lunch. Instead, she wanted to hit up a street market that sold various cheeses, fruits, and side dishes. Unfortunately, Colleen loves herself a good street market so 4 pounds of cheese, 4 containers of various mozzarella and olive dishes, 2 baguettes, and 3 exotic fruits later we were more than set for food. Unfortunately, we spent way more than if we had just stopped and got food at a sit down place.
At this point, we were beyond full since we didn't want any of the food Colleen got in her mad shopping spree to go to waste. We were also still feeling less than optimal from the 10 liters of beer from the day before. With these factors in mind, Colleen made the wise decision to head over to St. Peter's Church and do the vertical climb of 300 steps or about one football field to go look at the observation tower. The views were amazing so I thought about forgiving Colleen for the climb, but then didn't.
After the church adventure, we went and bought a cuckoo clock. Why not?
Finally, we met up with Chris and Megan and had dinner. Apparently, they had spent the day riding bikes around Munich and building low income beer tents for underprivileged Germans. Good for them. We had slept in, ate too much, and climbed some stairs. For dinner, we all ordered traditional Bavarian food because there ain't no schnitzel like a Munich schnitzel. Fo' shizzle.
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