{"id":5953,"date":"2026-09-19T18:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:50:27","slug":"munchen-day-2-oktoberfest-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2026\/09\/munchen-day-2-oktoberfest-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00fcnchen Day 2: Oktoberfest opening day!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greetings from the Poschner’s Tent — our opening night experience was so delightful!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Oktoberfest opening day! We started with the opening parade, where the wagons of beer are pulled by horses into the Theresienwiese to kick off the event.<\/div>\n
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We met up with one of our USAFA sponsor cadets who is on exchange at the French Air Force Academy this semester. We also met her classmates from Canada, Japan, and Germany.<\/div>\n
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After wandering the festival grounds in the afternoon, we had dinner in the smaller Poshner tent — famous for their roast duck — where we made friends with literally everyone in the tent. What a party after dinner! It was delightful!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A view from the parade of the barrels of beer being delivered to the tents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Watching the parade!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Meeting up with our sponsor cadet (blue dress) and her classmates from 3 different countries!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Suzy and I did some wandering on our own not long after the gates opened. We went into the Marstall tent and watched the party.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It was a bit crazy even to find a place to get a single beer — but we squeezed ourselves into a biergarten…it was quite crowded…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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From our dinner in the Poschner tent. We had a very good time and met a group of German families who have been going to this tent on opening weekend for generations. They really want us to come back next year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Post-beer tent selfie. This is in front of the tent that Suzy and I had visited earlier in the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oktoberfest opening day! We started with the opening parade, where the wagons of beer are pulled by horses into the Theresienwiese to kick off the event. We met up with one of our USAFA sponsor cadets who is on exchange at the French Air Force Academy this semester. We also met her classmates from Canada, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t