Oktoberfest

This past weekend a small group of us went to the Yuengling Oktoberfest, and I'm just now getting a chance to post about it because work has been HELL this week.  And also last week.  But only the hell of this week affects me posting about Oktoberfest.  Anyways, for those of you who may not know about Yuengling (because it isn't sold everywhere, sadly), it's pronounced "Ying-Ling", and it's some very tasty beer.  Actually, it's my very favorite type of beer.  And Yuengling is also the oldest brewery in the country (1829).  I haven't yet toured their very old brewery, but McGee and his friends have and it sounds pretty awesome.  I hope to get the chance to check it out soon.

Anyways, back to Oktoberfest (can you tell my brain is a bit fried from these past 2 weeks of work?  Sorry about the rambling of this post...).  We went to the Yuengling Oktoberfest last year too, and it was a bit smaller this year, but still super fun.  They had dachshund races, beer stein races, contests to see how long you could hold pitchers of beer out in front of you... Lots of fun stuff!  McGee's friend Big Mike (Yes, that's what we call him... and an interesting little factoid about him is that he's an opera singer!  Yes, an opera singer) participated in the contest of holding pitchers of beer out in front of you, and he lasted a long time!  Big Mike is the guy on the left in the pictures, with the reddish-colored pants.  

And here's some pictures of McGee and Big Mike participating in the beer stein races!

They also had beer pong tables set-up, so the group of us played a few games of that!  It was super fun, and the team McGee and I were on won the first game!  

Here's some more random pictures from around the festival.  It's held at a really cool venue called the Steel Stacks, and it's such a nice set-up and location for the Oktoberfest every year.