Alrightyyy, I have been severely slacking!

Where did I leave you all? Ah yes, our second day of Oktoberfest was fast approaching :) We decided since it was a Tuesday we could be daring and not show up until 3 p.m. and hope there was still an open table in one of the tents. The girls I went with all live in a separate housing community on the other side of Oktoberfest, so I made a plan to meet them there at 3. Unfortunately for me my phone decided to "run out of minutes" even though I had only sent like 5 texts at this point, so when one of them texted me and asked if I would meet them at the main entrance (still not really sure which one that is) I couldn't text her back and just assumed the entrance we went in on Sunday was the main one. I think I was wrong, seeing as I was standing there alone for half an hour, but again who really knows? haha, obviously not me. However they are very nice people and called me one last time before going into Oktoberfest :)) so it was all groovy, I was saved from the lonely heat and extreme awkwardness. Side note: In Germany you only pay for outgoing texts/calls, which is why I was able to receive theirs.

We ventured into the Hofbrau tent and did indeed find a table! The middle of one anyway, we had to hop over the railing that surrounds all the tables in our dirndls, but I would like to think I pulled it off with at least a small amount of grace :) I had a lovely chat with two Greek guys, one who works in Munich at BMW and the other who was just visiting.

Hofbrau:

This picture is kind of deceiving, it only LOOKS like there are lots of open places. Those tables are all reserved for the evening by people who have lots of money (30 euros each).

On the other side of us were some very drunk Italian men so my friends were not having as nice of a time as I was, and we all decided to move on to a tent that I still have no idea how to pronounce correctly or spell, haha. Oh hold up, I conveniently took a picture of it!

This tent also involved hopping over railings, but everyone was standing on the benches at that point so it was totally normal. Next to our rowdy, young people section was what looked like a VIP section since it was full of older, established looking folk who remained seated. I definitely want to be a part of that action one day. Each table had a FULL PLATTER of meats and cheeses and other deliciousness :))

They also sells these cookie necklace things at like every other stand, between the bratwurst and Oktoberfest T-shirts. And yes that does say 35 euros, but that particular one is about the size of my entire upper body.

On Wednesday we had to go register for classes. I THINK I got the classes I want, so I don't have class on Fridays or Mondays EEEEK! But I'm not totally sure cuz they didn't have any centralized system to count the total number of people signed up for a class, each of the workers signing us up had a list from only their computer and I still haven't received any confirmation emails :/ any who, my British friend Kate and I spent the afternoon enjoying the small amount of sun that was peaking out between the clouds at the Englischer Garten, as were a lot of half dressed people and one COMPLETELY undressed man. Apparently that's a common occurrence. But don't worry, he's well outside these pictures.