Here's the last picture of the parade I was trying to upload. I had just ran out of room :/

So Oktoberfest!

Our adventures started after the parade, when we were sitting on the lawn behind the Rathaus (City Hall) and I was eating a giant pretzel twice the size of my head.

We decided to meet the International Club people at Odeonsplatz, where they said they would be to take us to Oktoberfest but when we showed up no one was around. Instead we totally BY ACCIDENT ended up roaming into the Theatine Church:

 After that we made our way to Oktoberfest :)) The whole thing is massive. The amount of people, the food, the beer, the "tents", and the rides. By "tents" they mean fully constructed buildings with tent-like roofs and I expected all the rides to be of the super-cheap, mega-sketchy carnival variety, but none of those were found. They had legit roller coasters and a few almost Disney quality storybook rides (I'm assuming, we didn't actually pay 10 euros to go on one). Here's the inside of a tent we actually got a table at:

We were in that tent at 3 p.m. so it was a little more mellow, if you're there later literally everyone is standing on the tables singing along with the songs and having a jolly good time. Here is the madness outside the tents:

and one of the tents we tried to find a table at with no luck:

Such an atmosphere though, it's a bit insane. Round two is tomorrow! Wish us luck!