This is what Oktoberfest looks like if you're really doing it right. It's getting to be a regular thing for us: last year we went to the real Oktoberfest in Munich; this year Oktoberfest came to us. Each year for the past 38 years the German NCOs Association has put on their own 2-day version at SHAPE. We'd been hearing for months that they do a good job, and we were not disappointed. It's a huge deal for the SHAPE community: two of the kids Sarah met this summer even came home from their colleges in London and Paris so that they wouldn't miss it. Of course our version of the fest is a little different from Munich's. Besides being smaller (1 tent instead of 14), they served black beer (schwartzbier) instead of märzen. One of the beer guys told me that it's a specialty of Saxony. The food was a little different (spätzle seems to be beyond their capabilities) but was still very good, and the band did all the stuff you'd expect a German oompah band to do, including bawdy skits with men dressed as women. And they had the whip-cracking guys. Now I have to buy myself one of those hats my friend Curtis has.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
A Moveable Fest
This is what Oktoberfest looks like if you're really doing it right. It's getting to be a regular thing for us: last year we went to the real Oktoberfest in Munich; this year Oktoberfest came to us. Each year for the past 38 years the German NCOs Association has put on their own 2-day version at SHAPE. We'd been hearing for months that they do a good job, and we were not disappointed. It's a huge deal for the SHAPE community: two of the kids Sarah met this summer even came home from their colleges in London and Paris so that they wouldn't miss it. Of course our version of the fest is a little different from Munich's. Besides being smaller (1 tent instead of 14), they served black beer (schwartzbier) instead of märzen. One of the beer guys told me that it's a specialty of Saxony. The food was a little different (spätzle seems to be beyond their capabilities) but was still very good, and the band did all the stuff you'd expect a German oompah band to do, including bawdy skits with men dressed as women. And they had the whip-cracking guys. Now I have to buy myself one of those hats my friend Curtis has.
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All that real time stuff is interesting, but some of us might be more interested in what's happening with you guys, visa vie, no postings in October. I know, I know, it's only October 12.
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