Oktoberfest

 Hello again, all!  I know, a post again!  Just 4 days after the last one?  WHAAAAAA?  Well, tbh I meant to post the last one well before I actually did.  What can I say, I got lazy.  I was watching Addams Family Values today and then the electricity did a 'blip' and now my Roku is super confused.  So, I unplugged it and figured I'd give it a while before trying again.  In the meantime, I could fill you in on the Oktoberfest shenanigans.  

For those of you going "But it's September" let me explain.  Oktoberfest was originally a celebration in October.  However, the longer it went on and the more popular it became, the start of the festival was moved to September because the sun stays up longer in Sept than in Oct, giving the festival goers more time to enjoy.  In Ft Worth I went to the first Oktoberfest at Panther Island.  This year, it was in Trinity Park (due to some legal issues from last year, I think).  It started on Thurs and ran thru Saturday.  I went Thurs with my fella and Saturday T came down and we went together.  Here are some of the pix from the last 2 days.

We gave our tickets to the people at the entrance and were promptly informed that the steins they had ordered were going to be there tomorrow.  Therefore, we'd have to come back tomorrow to pick them up.  I asked if I could pick his up since he would be busy and was assured that would be fine.  So, on Thursday we had to drink out of normal plastic cups, not out of the steins I'd been expecting.  Ah well, such is life during the Covid.

They had to do a polka/conga line.

I wanted to get a pic of him being him... he's kinda a goofball and I like that.

They looked like they were having fun going all around the tent, which, by the way, was AIR CONDITIONED!!!  That was part of the reason we were in here, as it was quite hot and melty out.

They were smart and put the A/C'd tent opposite one of the beer tents, so it was not difficult to get a refill.

I was going for a cute holding hand pic here... not sold on how 'cute' it turned out, but it was fun.

When the sun went down, we went exploring a bit more.  The carnival stuff looked fun, but we did not partake.

They make for good pix.

We did have food, but I did not take any pix of it this day.

MONKEY!

If you are my friend on FB, then you've seen this one.  I teased him a little about being officially official when there are these kinds of pix.

We're ok with it.  

Day 2 - Friday.  Here's the brat in a bun from Seigles that I had.  Ketzler's (my favorite German place in Granbury) was also there, but they were not serving brats.

My lovely companion for day 2 - it was still hot as hell.

A very German picture here, I think.  The pretzel was AMAZING.

Our food providers.

Sooo good.  I did in fact have a schnitzel on a bun from Ketzler's, mostly because I LOVE their sauerkraut.

We did also get our steins.  And I was able to get one for my fella as well.  So, all was good.  We spent plenty of time in the food, A/C, and beer tents.  The one complaint I would have is that (being in the park) the only toilet facilities were of the port-a-potty variety.  I did end up using one on Thurs (not bad, being the start of the festival) but was able to avoid them on Fri.  I'm sure they did their best to keep them clean throughout the weekend, but I can't say that I'm sad we decided not to go on Saturday.  Really, once we'd had some food and drink, we were good.  T and I had lunch at Rio Mambo on Saturday and then he headed home.  

It was a really nice couple of days of hanging out with my fella and seeing T.  The next post will likely be in October going over our Santa Fe adventures.  There's been a lot going on workwise, but I think I'll wait a bit to let you in on that.  Honestly, it's nice to be able to do more posts about 'here's the fun stuff going on' and less about 'I'm having a breakdown, come on the ride with me.'  I do appreciate when people read both kinds of posts, tho.  Thank you, faithful reader, for continuing to read the updates on what's going on in my world.  :)  :*MUAH!