Salzburg Festivial and Oktoberfest.

Been a very interesting 10 days! It snowed last week. Which was crazy! Snow in the middle of September. The group went to a castle that day so it was really pretty walking around the old castle in the snow.

This last week on Thursday the Salzburg festival started. There are rides and booths and lots of really good food, and of course a beer tent. (no where in this region is there not a beer tent at a large event) I got to see some traditional dancing and tons of cool looking stuff.

The Salzburg festival ends tomorrow but there is still lots more to come this semester. Today I went on a short trip to Munich. I will be going back in a week again with my group but today was all about Oktoberfest! I think it is a one time deal in my lifetime. SO MANY PEOPLE! I didn't even know that so many people could fit into one area. I got the best chicken in the world there. It was amazing. We saw rides and the beer halls and the gardens. We did try and get into one of the beer gardens but no luck. We stood in a mass mob of people for a good hour waving the number four and jumping around like a fool. It was also the closets I have ever been to random strangers before as everyone proceeded to get as close as possible to each other. I tried to take on the 6 foot guys that elbowed me in the shoulder but not luck. However the very handsy Italian guy (also super loud and was resting his arm on my friends while trying to shove them out of the way) got kicked out before ever getting in. Interesting times in the beer garden mob.

We did however finally make it out of the festival area and into a nice part of the town with a second hand English book shop and an ice cafe before heading back to the train.

Tomorrow is the ice caves. Super excited for that. (not excited about the 800 steps though) Should be lots of fun. Stay tuned for more exciting adventures!