Jakey Jake

So here i am at Oktoberfest, the biggest beer party in the world… and i can tell you its a serious party. But i just cant seem to get myself into the party mood these days. I met up with Chrissy G at the Euro youth hostel. Hes been living in a small town outside Salzberg called Mundsee, working in a restraunt/hostel and learning austrian/german. We went straight down to Oktoberfest for a few beers and to check out what all the fuss is about. It was pretty damn wild, there are 12 main tents that are huge….. and most of them were very very full (of drunk people) Chris and i did our fair share of partying before the rollercoasters called us. Rollercoasters when youre drunk are very very fun. anyway after the grounds closed we went back to the hostel and i piked after having spent the last 7 days or so on the cus i was knackered. Chris managed to go out with some guys we met up with on the street. The next day we spent the afternoon at Oktoberfest again, somehow we managed to be drunk again… im not quite sure how. chris managed to piss his dad right off by being 2 and a half hours late to meet him to go to Mondsee. It took about 2 hours to get there and when we arrived we decided to go out again… i dont think we got home unjtil 4am but we had a really good time. The locals were great and we played mini golf pool, puting bar stools and ash trays on the pool table, just to spice things up a bit. Hung out in mondsee, staying at Chris’ work which was a hotel/restraunt. We mucked around mondsee for those few days, geting up to mischief. I think i broke the local hamburger eating record…. drank a lot of beer and jeigermeister… Chris’ surrogate family were great and they were very nice for putting me up and feeding me (as well as getting me boozed). I left Chris on the saturday in time to get down to the last 2 days of Oktoberfest. I checked into the wombat and managed to talk my way into getting free accomodation when it was their busiest time so once i was checked in i checked out the local bar, but everyone was already wasted so i had an early night. Tomorrow was to be the big one… the last day of oktoberfest. I met up with some people at breakfast and we got down to the hofbrauhaus tent at 9am to ensure we got a seat. We started drinking Steins at 9.30 when the bar opened (thats 1 litre of beer)… and from there on in the day got messier and messier. At about 12 Damo, Silks and Stokes arrived. We met Phil at about 3…. I was smashed by 5 and went home for a nap, getting back by 7 to see everyone falling off the tables and generally having a bloody good time. SO i got back on the steins only to be seriously drunk again by 8… i tried climbing up onto the main music stage but managed to get pulled off and almost pummeled by the bouncers except that phil knew them and talked them out of it. Then things went crazy as everyone started to leave, we tried sneaking out the steins, whcih we managed to get out of hofbrau but there was secuirty on the outskirts of oktoberfest taking them off those who were trying to steal them. Well we had our taken off us, which i wasnt happy about, so i let the bouncers know what i thought of them… probably not the best idea knowing the psycology of bouncers, but under the influence of alcohol i felt invincible… hehehehe. so what does someone who had their stolen stein taken off them??? try stealing it back of course….. BRILLIANT IDEA….. so having more than enough courage to go around, i bolted at the chance when i saw them put the glasses down, swooping in and bolting off, clearly forgetting that im more like a lead legged fatso than a ben johnson on steroids, so it didnt take them long to catch up with me.. One of them trying to break my arm with his baton. But it was so much fun at the time. Anyway the cops came and ended it all and we headed off to the pub to go and do some more drinking. Brilliant day all in all, i shall definately be going back to Oktoberfest in future… oh and if you go the half chickens are the BEST…. i think i ate about 10 chickens in the time i was there.

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