Oktoberfest broke my camera

So much has happened in the last week!! First off I went to Amsterdam to meet up with Keith and Katie and my parents. I took the night bus from Berlin, which got in a few HOURS early, putting me at a random metro stop around 4am. I ended up walking about a mile to the city center and sleeping in the hostel lobby for a couple hours until my room was ready. The first night in Amsterdam Keith and Katie and I visited the red light district, enough said. Then the next night we rocked the pub crawl. The next day was filled with museums and walking around town with the family.

I ended up going with them to Frankfurt for the night as well, then headed to Munich the next morning. Unfortunately Oktoberfest broke my camera, so I have no photos of my own from those 3 days of amazingness.

Right after arriving we went to the Haufbrau house and pounded back a few beers to start the trip off.

Day 1: Haufbrau tent. People standing on tables chugging an entire liter of beer. Chants. Singing. Prosting like crazy. Just general "festing."

Day 2: we didn't realize that the last Saturday of Oktoberfest would be crazy busy (cause were dumb) and by 10:30am all the big tents were full. We chose a small beer garden instead, and it was a good thing we did; within 30 minutes the place was packed and there was a line at the door. I reached a personal record of 4 liters of beer in one sitting, and I don't think i need to even tell you how obliterated I was. The festing that day was great, and we were all back at the hostel by 5pm to sleep it off.

Day 3: woke up at 6am to make it into the Haufbrau tent. Good thing we were there an hour and a half before they even opened. Not. I think the boys wanted to kill me, since we woke up so early but could have simply walked through the front door at 9:30am and gotten a spot. Keith bought liederhosen, and looked like a champion while prosting all our neighbors.

I slept 15 hours in a row in my parents hotel room after that weekend....

And now I'm in Prague!! I did the free walking tour today (great!) to learn all about the history of the city, and tonight I'm doing the pub crawl. But the best part about this hostel and city is that Pilates & spinning are 3 euros!! So I'm going to go down in about 5 minutes for Pilates, and tomorrow will be some kick ass spinning. THANK GOD because these carbs are getting to me! And even though I'm walking all around these cities, sometimes you just need someone to scream at you to pedal faster while dirty rap music plays, ya know?

RG