Spring Fest

April 30, 2011

This was our last day in Munich, so we went back to the area we explored the day before to walk around. We had passed by a Japanese restaurant yesterday, and that is where we decided to go to lunch. I didn’t think I would be eating Japanese food while I was here, but it was a nice treat since I’m sure it’s the only time I will have it during this month. 

 

After lunch, we walked around and I got a couple of souvenirs and gifts. Yurie wanted to buy one of those traditional German outfits that woman wear…you know, the ones that squish everything up to enhance a certain part of a woman’s body. It was really cute and I would have liked to buy one as well, but they were a bit over my price range. So I resisted. Maybe someday….

 

After walking around for a while, we went back to the hostel to relax for a bit. I took advantage of the free Wi-Fi of course. The hostel apparently sells vouchers for a dinner at Hard Rock Café, but we found out that night that the vouchers don’t work on Saturdays. Darn! One of Keenan’s roommates told us about Spring Fest that was going on near the hostel. So, we thought we would go check that out and see if we could find some dinner there.

After getting a little lost, we found our way to the Spring Fest. I was very surprised when we arrived at a carnival – it reminded me of the Del Mar Fair. There were a lot of rides, food, and people. Finally, we arrived to the beer hall. We went inside, and the sight we saw was one I was not expecting. There were so many people crowded around tables, and many were standing on the benches. Everyone had a beer, of course, and they were singing and dancing to the music that was playing. Interestingly enough, it was a song I knew. We tried to walk along the sides of the room to see what else was in there, but we kept getting shoved by people, especially the servers who were carrying about 4 or 5 beers at a time. It was a little too crazy in there, so we turned around and fought our way back to the entrance. I was glad to be back outside where it was about 15 degrees cooler.

 

This is where the madness was!

 This looks so fun!! Unfortunately, I didn't spend the money to try it out.

There wasn’t really any food there besides carnival type food, so we ended up going to Hard Rock Café anyways. It was pretty late by the time we got there – around 9 or so. I ordered one of the “smaller” burgers because there was no way I was going to get through a 10 pound one. 

We were excited for the next day…Salzburg, here we come!