The Earth is made up of seven continents, 196 countries, with over seven billion people across them, speaking 6500 different languages. There are thousands of different cultures and subcultures, and no two people will have the exact same preferences, but almost everyone in the world appreciates a good party. Oktoberfest is an annual German festival held in Munich, with the first being held in 1810. It is the world’s largest beer festival, lasting 16 days with over 6 million people attending every year. Columbus has hosted it’s very own version of the festival since 1965, with this year marking the 50th anniversary. With delicious food, great music, and fun events for all ages, Oktoberfest is an outstanding cultural festivity.
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Many booths were set up with beautiful goods, ranging from artesian steins, jams, handcrafted jewelry, woodcarvings, and stunning sculptures that also functioned as fountains. When we had our full of window-shopping after about 30 minutes, we decided to head over to the cheese and wine tasting. We listened to the speaker talk about pairings for a few minutes and sampled a number of cheeses such as limburger, harzer, weisslacker, and cambozola, commonly marketed as blue brie in English speaking countries. As we left, the girls wanted to try their luck at a pegboard sponsored by the Columbus Crew; my mother and I shared a hearty laugh when we saw that Hope and Kate had each won a beer koozie, and Julia had won a bottle opener keychain, much to their bewilderment. Before we left, we decided to try a pretzel, so we bought a large pretzel with sea salt and fennel seeds and shared it among ourselves. As we were heading away from the food court, Hope spotted a booth selling mini-pumpkin donuts. Having a few tickets left, the currency for purchasing food, we decided to get two servings to share among us as we headed toward the exit. As we walked back to the car, we talked about our favorite parts of the festival, Mom liked seeing the vendor’s booths, Hope favored the bow shooting, Julia and Kate loved the food, and I considered the Glockenspiel stage to be the main highlight of the
Without delay, …show more content…
Many booths were set up with beautiful goods, ranging from artesian steins, jams, handcrafted jewelry, woodcarvings, and stunning sculptures that also functioned as fountains. When we had our full of window-shopping after about 30 minutes, we decided to head over to the cheese and wine tasting. We listened to the speaker talk about pairings for a few minutes and sampled a number of cheeses such as limburger, harzer, weisslacker, and cambozola, commonly marketed as blue brie in English speaking countries. As we left, the girls wanted to try their luck at a pegboard sponsored by the Columbus Crew; my mother and I shared a hearty laugh when we saw that Hope and Kate had each won a beer koozie, and Julia had won a bottle opener keychain, much to their bewilderment. Before we left, we decided to try a pretzel, so we bought a large pretzel with sea salt and fennel seeds and shared it among ourselves. As we were heading away from the food court, Hope spotted a booth selling mini-pumpkin donuts. Having a few tickets left, the currency for purchasing food, we decided to get two servings to share among us as we headed toward the exit. As we walked back to the car, we talked about our favorite parts of the festival, Mom liked seeing the vendor’s booths, Hope favored the bow shooting, Julia and Kate loved the food, and I considered the Glockenspiel stage to be the main highlight of the