Oktoberfest

Sorry we have been away so long but Oktoberfest, work and life has been keeping us busy! Aside from a repetitive drinking injury (what you say...go ahead and hold up a liter of beer every two minutes and sing "ein prosit" and clank away on your neighbors glass and see what happens to your knuckles) we are well! We have had great times at Oktoberfest which MUST be seen to be believed! It is the Dionysian festival of Germany. Yes, everyone is drunk and many are reeling all over the place BUT everyone is also a friend and neighbor...It is everyone coming together and being the same at least for one night! The fact that the bands in the tents play "Country Roads" and AC/DC songs just adds to the sense that there are no boundaries. After the tents close, the rides continue and they have to be seen to be believed. Imagine standing in a crowd and watching people clamor onto a slowly spinning disk as the crowd watches them fall off one by one...If they don't fall off, a medicine ball on a string or a lasso will help! There are still also old-fashioned side shows with the headless woman, chopping audience members in half and a REAL flea circus. It really is an event. I am posting pictures and video to help you see it.

The kids are also doing well! William has decided he likes it and is willing to stay longer if he gets a nice cell phone! He is making friends and enjoying soccer! Audrey is still hanging with her new crowd and having a good time. Although she was DYING to go to homecoming with her friends back home!

Matt is getting very busy at work and will be traveling a lot again. He is due back in the States in November.

I have been busy with work, life and Oktoberfest not to mention "back-to-school" nights etc. The life of a hausfrau is the same everywhere. I did get to a GREAT art exhibit which had every major artist from Rembrandt to Picasso...It is the private collection of a Swiss couple. It was really amazing to see the diversity of works by people you have heard so much about and never really seen their work.

We are really beginning to get to know Munich...Every day we see something new or learn about a new place...most within blocks of the apartment. We have also seen old friends from home who were in town for a night and relatives from Germany...So life has been good!

I am a little short on time but will write more again soon....This weekend we are off to Paris for Audrey's birthday so I am sure we will have lots to tell...Miss you all!