Oktoberfest in downtown Campbell

It was all about bratwurst, beer, and music from the Silicon Valley Accordion Society in downtown Campbell where it held it's annual Oktobertfest this past weekend. The crowd was friendly with beer in hand chilling with friends outside the street, walking, and talking, making new friends along the way as they strolled  through arts and crafts and most importanly making friends along the way. In all the years we've attended the event, we figured it out that Sunday is the way to go as Saturday gets extremely crowded unless you like waiting an hour for beer and food. I heard from friends that some booths ran out of beer after waiting in line for an hour. 

I would say the Biggest dissapointment this year would be the shrinkage of the beer glasses from 16 oz to 12 oz and kept the same price. I opted for a plastic cup this year as the beer glass was not worth the money. Mr. T brought his Das Boot, you know the 64 oz beer glass from the movie BeerFest. We did sneak in some beer...ssshhh don't tell anybody that. Walking with Das Boot in hand got attention from crowds even from the men in blue which wasn't a good thing. There were 3 popular questions that everybody asked: 1) where did you get that? 2) how much beer can you put in that? and 3) do you have to turn it? Our answers were: not here, a lot of beer, and no you don't have to turn it because we're not chugging it in 2 seconds. As we were in line to get our turkey leg, I see men in blue approaching. I told Mr. T to hide it but he ignored me. Of course I was right, they tapped him on his shoulder, they told him he couldn't bring your own beer glass so they gave him two options: to chugg it or dump. Das boot was just filled with 36 oz of beer and didn't want to pour it down the drain. He drank it slowly in front of the 3 men in uniforn and after a few minutes they got tired of looking at him and was walked away. Overall, I had a great time and I can't wait for next year's Oktoberfest.

Here I am eating a turkey leg. It was smokey and sweet, and tasted like holiday ham. Yummy!