In NYC for one night..  first step was to take a quick run in central park at sunset.. pretty !

then headed out to a  great pop up party with max in brooklyn..

it’s kind of hard to explain.. htye sort of ‘occupy’ a street with music fire perofmers, food.. It was great seeign so many old freinds there.. and geteting introduced to many of Max’s good freinds.. 

 

a guy came up to me and drew this picture of me on a dirty pizza box.. how cool is that ?!?!

 

then the band showed up.. !

now its tiem to sleep.. big day tomorrow

 

more from the road

nite all, nite sam

-me

Wies’n-schaft  =   The science of Oktoberfest

Wies’n (aka Oktoberfest)  + Schaft (shaft) .. but sounds like Wissenschaft which  means science

i know my German is getting better when I can make a pun in it

 

Wien’schaft is the sceince of studying   a ton of sweetly  drunk couples dressed in lederhosen and dirndls coming back from oktoberfest ..  sleepy and happy. after walking  around all dayin theire native costumes.. who  then went  out isnging and drinking with lots of happy strangers.

 

It makes the mood of this city so happy and sweet..

I’m happy to studied it 🙂

 

nite all nite  sam

-me

Greetings from Munich where Oktoberfest is in full swing.. and it’s not even Oktober !. Actually .. here they call it Wies’n.. which kind of means ‘field’.. don’t ask me why.. but we spent the better part of the afternoon there..

 

parts of it were just like I’d imagined it …. lots of drunk tourists. but it was so very much more..

it reminded me a bit like our state fair.. a virtual city that pops up for two weeks.. tehn dissapears.. but even on midday on tuesday it was completely filled with happy people

 

niot just happy.. reallly, reallllllly happy. unabashadley, un restrained joy.. coing form everywhere. it was imposible not to feel !

 

here are our hosts.. my friends Katarina and Louisa from work

 

and my freinds from elsewhere.. Lisa from Canada.. and Dieanna from California

 

here’s the hall where our reservations were.. there were 7000 people ther.. and this was 3PM on a Tuesday !!!!

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Here’s Dirk

 

and the rest of crew   .. marko, katrina, me, lisa, seanna, dirk , lousis aan johanes 

 

soon people were up off thier benches singing 

 

food was.. uh.. wierd.. not exactly a vegitarians paradise.. but i found stuff to eat

 

out came my glasses.. and that kind of took over

 

i actually like johnnes glasses.. what do you think ?

Nik showed up.. .. he was our host !

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here’s my freind Florian

 

and Oliver

 

look at the mepties (note.. i only had 2 beers all day.. too busy taking pictures !)

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this says.. ‘no woman is so bad that she cant be a man’s better half’ sexist.. i know.. but i think it’s actually a dig at guys .. not at women !

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here’s the 2nd place we went .. iloved the name !

 

 

ok.. i know .. lots of pictures of me and glasses.. but what I hope you feel is the level of fun..

 

it was really, really amazing.. my smiling muscles still hurt !

 

thanks to my coworkers for arrainging this wonderful Weis’n !.. i will never forget it !

 

more tomorrow

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

t’s Oktoberfest over here and all hotel roomsa re double hteir cost. In the spirit of saving money.. I rented an AirBnB.. about 150 a night and not too far fro work. Turns out it’s a dorm room. abotu the size of a large closet for bed, bath and kitchen. It’s kinda gross. but kinda sweet  too. I like it here..

not too many othersaround.. adashoort subway to work.

 

my bed

 

my desk

 

the bathroom

 

ny hallway on the 6th floor

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ok.. gotta sleep only 2 hours yesterday,

nite all, nite sam

-me