So far, Mike drank a beer as big as his head and we noticed that at night around here it seems like the whole town is drunk. People are definitely dressed up for Oktoberfest, and there is a lot of yelling, singing, chanting and drunken weaving taking place in U-Bahn stations and in the Marienplatz square (which is awesome by the way).

Strangely, it is nearly impossible to find food after 11pm. Luckily we finally found a pizza shop and some fast food since we were going on Fritos and tea for hours. There were also a surprising number of people making out in public. Since it’s the last Sat. night of Oktoberfest, I guess that makes sense. The drunkenness, I mean. And the making out, I suppose. The guidebook warns that drunken Germans sometimes start flights in crowded public places during Oktoberfest, but mostly we saw a lot of love.

We’re planning to get the full Bavarian experience tomorrow by joining the Oktoberfest festivities early, with the goal of being hammered by noon. We’re also on the lookout for Dirndl and Leiderhosen since we love us some costuming. We’ve only been here a few hours, but so far- good times.

Let me also take a moment to say that I heart both Virgin Atlantic and British Airways. Virgin offers a vegan meal as a choice, and even when the computer said the check-in guy couldn’t give us a window seat, he called down and got us one anyway. Our delayed flight from LA to London made us have to run all over Heathrow- which is stupidly large and in many ways very frustrating- but BA still got our bags on the plane just in the nick of time. Despite the annoyingly slow internet speed in our apartment, I think it’s been a pretty promising start to our adventures.

It’s 3:30am here, although my body tells me it’s just 6:30p. Must sleep to recharge for much fun tomorrow.

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