Octoberfest

Last weekend Brad and I both attended our first Octoberfest. Japanese people really do have a great love of beer. I expected there to be a whole lot of sake when we got here but to be honest I think Brad and I drank more sake in the US than we have here. The drink of choice is definitely beer. A couple weeks ago they had the Japan Beer Festival (which we didn't go to) and now an all German beer Octoberfest!

That would be 1L of beer...

Notice the cool pretzel necklaces that Chris made for us out of dental floss. Everyone around us thought they were so cool and asked to take pictures with us. They also asked where they could buy them. Also of note--I'm jealous of the grocery store near Chris' house because those were the first pretzels I've had in 8 months. And next...what do you do when you have a beer and a pretzel necklace? You have a competition of course!

The authentic German band.

It's amazing how much more social people are once they have a beer (or 2) in them. Japanese people in general are pretty reserved so even if they are curious about where you are from or what you are doing in Japan, they rarely ask you about it. Not so here, everyone was coming over to ask about us, the pretzel necklaces, and to see if we were German and could translate the ditty the band played before doing a tent wide toast. And lucky for us we made friend with a German fellow (sitting behind me) who was able to help us all out. (By the way--the beer that I'm drinking there is probably the best beer I've ever had, but I can't remember what it's called!)

Next up: You can tell this is towards the end of the night.

I just think it's hilarious that we're in Japan singing along with a German band about West Virginia!

Who knew the conga line was a universal thing?


To say the least, this was definitely one of the best nights that we've had here in Japan followed by arguably the very worst morning ever!