Das Boooooot!

So for anyone that's seen Beerfest and knows what I'm talking about, they don't actually drink from the boots here :)  Still, just got back to the hotel from a day at Oktoberfest and 3 hours in the Hippodrom tent.  Sooooooo, much fun though.  Ok, time to digress a bit...

Yesterday, was a day spent on the train.  We got up early and made it to the train way too early.  There aren't a lot of places to hang out and wait in the train station in Amsterdam, but we made the best of it.  Once we got on the train and our nice reserved 1st class seats, we were both able to relax and sleep for a bit.  Unfortunately, the train was delayed and our connection through Manheim was late.  Luckily the people at the station we very helpful and we got set up for a direct train from Manheim to Munich and actually got in before our initial connection!

Once we got in we planned on heading out to the Augustiner beer hall with Nick and Gabrille.  On our way to meet up with them we saw a phone store.  At some point between between Amsterdam and Munich our prepaid phone card stopped working.  Apparently our sim from Amsterdam doesn't roam throughout Europe.  Once we got a new card, everything was working again.  We'll probably need to get one in Prague too, but at least ours from now will be good to go for Berlin for the last leg of the trip.  The Augustiner was pretty amazing.  Their outdoor beer hall was huge and the food was fantastic.  We all had a liter of beer (pretty standard around here) and split an order of german sausage (about the size of breakfast links), pork knuckle, a quarter chicken' and some fries.  All delicous!  But on the way back to the hotel I had to stop and get a curry-wurst in the train station... which paid for itself with the 5 euro I found on the ground right before I had to pay!

Breakfast was decent in the morning.  It seemed pretty authentic as far as German breakfasts go.  We didn't have much time to spend here as we were planning on heading out to the market and wandering around a bit before hitting the festival today. That was very nice and ended up getting to the festival right in time for lunch and a beer :)