Oktoberfest Munich 09

I had the privilege last weekend of attending Munich for Oktoberfest again this year. I'd been before in 2001 and 2004, and I think this is a good pace to set for participation, don't think I could handle it every year. And so it began last Thursday:












From our hotel room balcony overlooking the Theresienwiese:

And why does the marvelousness that is döner not exist here in the US when the rest of the world has so much? Damn they are good. Btw, did you know that if you get a gyro in any of the 50 states it was likely mass produced in one of a small handfuls of factories outside Chicago? We need one of those here to make some döner.


At the Hofbräu-Festzelt Sat afternoon:


And just something I thought was cool: