Cale does his best Elton John impersonation.
We had front row seats to Elton John and it was worth every penny. Awesome performance. Awesome view. Awesome awesomeness.
That's the back of my head and yes, that's Elton John five feet away from me.
This is Elton John signing my ticket and saying Thank you for coming. I screamed Thank you and he said thank you back. It was awesome. Have I said it was awesome, yet?
Look at all of these people!! This large building is one of many large beer halls. The German beer companies pay millions of dollars to erect these huge halls that fit thousands of beer drinkers. In this picture are lots of tourists. Most Germans are wearing their durndls and lederhosen. Cale now has his own pair of lederhosen.
The Oktoberfest is part beer drinking, part state fair on steroids, and another part weirdness. This is the best example of weirdness. A whole display of gnomes.
Maybe it is the beer we drank, but we found this hysterical.
Here is a birds-eye view of just how many people are in the midway and how many different beer gardens there are. About 7 million people visit Oktoberfest in the 3 weeks it is on.
This is the famous bridge in Lucerne, Switzerland. Most of it was burned in a fire in 1993 after someone carelessly tossed a cigarette butt. The art inside of it was lost except for one or two panels.
On the way to Munich... Jill and Matt kick back and relax.
Kent and I are extremely jetlagged in this picture, but you can't tell. This is Zurich right near where Jill and Matt's awesome apartment is. Isn't it beautiful?? The Limmat River flows throug town and Jill/Matt's apartment is right there. Zurich is beautiful and interesting. It's where the DaDa artist movement was founded. Zurich also boasts the largest clock face in the world... bigger than Big Ben. You can see it behind us. But most importantly, Zurich is home to the University that first shunned Albert Einstein, then welcomed him with open arms to teach others. He later fled to America after the start of WW II.
Matt, Jill and a friend, Dave, all pose outside the Hofbrauhaus. This is where you can enjoy beer, sausage, amazing pretzels. It is also the home to where Adolf Hitler started his "grassroots" propaganda meetings. He picked beer halls to get his message out to the people and it caught on.
This is the view from atop Mount Pilatus in Lucerne, Switzerland. This view is 7,000 feet up. Lucerne is about an hour by train away from Zurich. Jill, Kent and I spent the day in Lucerne. Lucerne is the most photographed place in Switzerland.
