oktoberfest.

i was going to make some fancy, alliterative title like "people, pints, puke: oktoberfest 2007," but i think i like the understatement of the current title better.

it was a crazy weekend and now that i'm sitting in bed looking back on it...well, crap. i'll give you my highlights in chronological order.

5:40 am-leave my apt. i had to go to the atm and get a large sum of money out. i was freaked because it was so dark and so silent that i felt nobody would hear me scream if i needed help.

7:30 am-breeze through check in and security at cdg. i got this odd sense of empowerment right then. it was like...i'm doing it. i'm traveling through europe by myself, i'm getting myself to the airport and navigating public transportation like a pro. it was me realizing that i'm actually doing the thing i've always talked about--traveling around europe.

8:40 am--take off from paris. i "read" on the plane. they gave us a delicious, filling lunch. by delicious, i mean kind of bland, and by filling, i mean i was still starving. it was a piece of bread split in half, buttered, with a slice of turkey/maybe ham on it. i looked on the bag it came in, which told me to "discover flavour!" i found it later, not in that bag. BUT it did come with the greatest granola bar i've ever had. it was banana chocolate. if i were lauren, i'd go more precisely into the ingredients, but alas, i've got to get on with the story.

10:10 am--arrive in munich. i wandered lost around the airport for a while until i got ahold of sascha, who told me where to go.

11:30 am--hop on a train to the center of munich. the german countryside is absolutely stunning. every color was so vibrant...i feel like germany would be the place to come if you wanted to create a new crayola color.

(screw the timestamps) i got to munich and venz, sascha and i wandered around the town for a while, which was rowdy. everyone's getting ready for the festival. we went to a beer garden and ordered our first liters. HOLY CRAP those are large. when it came, my eyes must have gotten bigger than the stein, though. i'm supposed to drink that whole thing and then still function after that?? i ordered the half beer, half lemon soda thing that i've heard so much about. that was a great decision on my part.

then we went back to the train station to wait for kit and randall and crew to show up. we waited forever, but i didn't mind at all. it was great catching up with those guys and filling sascha in on all the sb gossip. i forgot how much i liked hanging out with those two guys (especially sashca!).

you'll have to excuse me, but i'm pooped. i'm gonna end the story here for now (i'm sure you're tired of reading anyhow), but i'll pick up again tomorrow. stay tuned.