Shona dropped her cardigan (her only warm top, unless you count the merino tops which it is too hot to wear) at the ice caves entrance, so it's got dirt on it and needs washing. Washing should be insignificant if you put your washing on at 9:30am and the machine says that it takes 25minutes. It seems a bit quick but hey, that's all good. After 25 minutes the machine says 30 minutes and it changes to 35 minutes. Not so good. We need to be on a bus at 12:15pm and no one can tell us how long the wash will take. If we could get wifi at the hostel we wouldn't mind either because then we would be able to send emails and catch up on blogs over the past few days. Not to mention that this is our last chance to buy a Christmas decoration for Austria, so we bite the bullet leave our clothes spinning and head into town where there is a Christmas shop. It has beautiful decorations and we purchase a glass heart for our tree. Lets hope it makes it home. On the way home we guess what the deal is with our washing (as by this stage we
were scared that it would still be washing when the bus arrived) and being a front loader, no way to open it and get our washing out. The good news is that it's finished so we can try and dry it over the next hour. We've only had a small croissant each so head to a cafe down the street to find breakfast/lunch and use the wifi. Hurrah wifi works and we
can check our emails of which we wanted to do because Maryanne and Carmilo's wedding was over the weekend and we wanted photos. However there were no photos - come on guys! (at the time of writing Aunty Caryl has sent some and we've looked at Emma's on Facebook). Back at the hostel the bus has arrived and our clothes are mostly dry (we'll put the damp ones through the dryer in Munich - we've spent a fortune on laundry on this trip!) and we jump on the bus. Our guide Sheree has changed from the usual Busabout shirt into her dirndl, which is a typical Bavarian dress, in preparation for Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest was originally held to celebrate the wedding of King Ludwig to Queen Therese and then every year they seem to keep repeating the celebration which is now the 2nd largest festival in the
world (Carnival in Brazil is the biggest). But it's September you say - well it used to always be in October, but due to the weather the festival has been brought forward into September and the last weekend of Oktoberfest is the first weekend of October. We thought Oktoberfest was all about beer, but actually it's a big fair, with some amazing rides. Think of Dreamworld everyone and then you'll know what we mean - wipeout, the claw, 3 different roller coasters, giant drop, swinging chairs etc, but with different names (e.g. wipeout is not wipeout). It's free entry to Oktoberfest, so you pay for each ride you'd like to do. Shona convinces Mike to go on a roller coaster and she gets some pretty cool pictures of Mike the grounds and the coaster as we whip around, up and down! Exhilaration over we wander through some of the beer tents to see what happens inside. They are all full of people with the ompa bands playing German music. After four tents, we can't find a table to sit at (and you can't be served beer unless you are sitting at a table) we decide to head back to the hostel after having bratwurst in a bun for dinner - YUM! We hadn't planned on drinking tonight as we have big plans for tomorrow, so it worked out for the best.
were scared that it would still be washing when the bus arrived) and being a front loader, no way to open it and get our washing out. The good news is that it's finished so we can try and dry it over the next hour. We've only had a small croissant each so head to a cafe down the street to find breakfast/lunch and use the wifi. Hurrah wifi works and we 
can check our emails of which we wanted to do because Maryanne and Carmilo's wedding was over the weekend and we wanted photos. However there were no photos - come on guys! (at the time of writing Aunty Caryl has sent some and we've looked at Emma's on Facebook). Back at the hostel the bus has arrived and our clothes are mostly dry (we'll put the damp ones through the dryer in Munich - we've spent a fortune on laundry on this trip!) and we jump on the bus. Our guide Sheree has changed from the usual Busabout shirt into her dirndl, which is a typical Bavarian dress, in preparation for Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest was originally held to celebrate the wedding of King Ludwig to Queen Therese and then every year they seem to keep repeating the celebration which is now the 2nd largest festival in the 
world (Carnival in Brazil is the biggest). But it's September you say - well it used to always be in October, but due to the weather the festival has been brought forward into September and the last weekend of Oktoberfest is the first weekend of October. We thought Oktoberfest was all about beer, but actually it's a big fair, with some amazing rides. Think of Dreamworld everyone and then you'll know what we mean - wipeout, the claw, 3 different roller coasters, giant drop, swinging chairs etc, but with different names (e.g. wipeout is not wipeout). It's free entry to Oktoberfest, so you pay for each ride you'd like to do. Shona convinces Mike to go on a roller coaster and she gets some pretty cool pictures of Mike the grounds and the coaster as we whip around, up and down! Exhilaration over we wander through some of the beer tents to see what happens inside. They are all full of people with the ompa bands playing German music. After four tents, we can't find a table to sit at (and you can't be served beer unless you are sitting at a table) we decide to head back to the hostel after having bratwurst in a bun for dinner - YUM! We hadn't planned on drinking tonight as we have big plans for tomorrow, so it worked out for the best.
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Septemberfest sounds great! I (like most people I suspect) thought it was just an excuse to drink lots of beer out of large vessels!
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