Rally Time

We had already seen Oktoberfest in the evening, but we had yet to see it in the morning, and after our losses the day before, we knew we had to rally big time. Oh, and how.

So we headed over to the beer tents and got our first beer before noon:

The tent was a lot less crowded, but it wasn’t as lively either, since the band doesn’t start till later. So we had to make our own entertainment. I had remembered to bring the playing cards with me, and so I suggested we play the easiest drinking game ever, “Screw the Dealer.” So we started playing, much to the amusement of the Italians to our left and our right (we were later told that this was “Italian Week”). Jason turned out to be the Dealer and got a little ahead of us and got laughed at a lot:

The next game we invited the 2 Italians to our right, Marco and Diego (whose names alone were doing nothing to reduce the Italian stereotypes) to play with us. They embraced our American stereotypes as well.

After a couple of beers, we felt we had now sufficiently seen Oktoberfest, so we headed off to see the city. I definitely don’t recommend sight-seeing after a couple of beers, but we had already committed to this, so there we were. The old part of Munich is pretty cute. We walked up a large tower to get a good view of the city:

The rest of the afternoon was a blur (for me) as we did a lot of walking before we had to catch a train by 6 to get to Frankfurt. I think I was hungover by the time we got to the train station, which is a weird feeling.