First Oktoberfest:
CRAZYYYYY it is like a giant carnival. I wasn't expecting all of the lights and roller coasters and games. The beer tents were ridiculous. Some of them can hold 10,000 people (says Josh Lyberg... which is rather credible)
We went Wednesday night with Josh after we met up with him at the camp site and sort of just looked around... taking it all in.
Thursday we did the whole Oktoberfest thing and had great food and some beer. It was fun and crazy to the extreme.
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| A stein at Oktoberfest! |
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| Josh at Oktoberfest! |
Friday we went to Dachau Concentration camp. It was intense. Moving. Depressing. Hopeful. Beautiful. The whole grounds is a memorial and was beautiful. Which I think shows a great amount of respect and love for those who suffered there. The contrast between that beauty and the horror of the buildings and the museum is monumental. Here are some pictures I took.
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| The walkway between the barracks |
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| Looking into one of the cells |
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| The foundation of a barracks |
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| A memorial set up by the Catholic Church |
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| A bit of the fence |
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| The Gas Chambers |
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| Crematorium |
Then we went back and had a nice non depressing dinner. :)
Over all it was a really fun weekend. Getting to see Josh and getting to talk about Ohio things was awesome. Staying in the tents was really funny, and cold but mostly funny. All around us people we talking in different languages to each other.. we heard bits of some funny conversations. Like being woken up one morning by an Italian man yelling "where is all the womens!"
I had a great time :)
-Noreen
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