Prost!

This weekend was Oktoberfest! whoo! Me and five other people took the train to Munich (or as they say in Italy: Monoco) for the weekend.

We stayed in Augsberg which is about a 30 minute train ride away from Munich. On Saturday morning we got to Munich very early, and headed to the Oktoberfest. The tents open at 9:00, and usually start serving beer at 10:00am, but Saturday was the first day so we had to wait for "all the beer" to be brought in floats and the mayor to tap the keg.

This is what the inside of a tent looks like! They look like real buildings, yet they tear them down every year and rebuild them. The rest of year the spot where Oktoberfest is, is a floral market.

So after we got there super early we fought our way to a table and stayed there the rest of the day. The beers were a litre large and totally worth it!

Here are the four of us drinking our huge beers! We braided our hair so we looked more German and people would let us sit with them. Just a warning to anyone planning on ever attending Oktoberfest, some breweries brew a special Oktoberfest beer with a higher alcohol content. The girl next to us drank one beer and passed out on the table for the rest of the day.

On Sunday morning we headed back into Munich from Augsberg, and then to Dachau concentration camp which is located in a suburban area just outside of Munich. Dachau was the first concentration camp and was used mostly for priests. On the site now there stands numerous religious memorials in addition too some original buildings. It was very surreal. Especially when you look at all the beautiful houses in the town, and then in their backyards was something so horrible. I didn't take any pictures but if you want to learn more about Dachau here is the link to it's wikipedia page: Dachau Concentration Camp.

Sorry to end on such a downer note... we have our first exam this week in Italian so I am studying to figure out how to speak it. Mom and Dad come this weekend so I'm very excited!

Hope all is well!

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