A Lillois in Munich

Firstly a bit history of oktoberfest and wha it is (extract from http://www.theoktoberfest.com/HTML/index.html ) :

Oktoberfest is the worlds largest folk festival held yearly in Munich, Germany. It began in 1810 when Bavaria's Crown Prince Ludwig married Theresa of Saxony (Sachsen-Hildburghausen). The townsfolk held a party in a large field outside the city to celebrate and it was so popular, they held it again a year later. The same field has hosted the festival ever since and came to be named 'Theresienwiese' or 'Theresa's meadow' in English.
It's well known as a bier fest but, surprisingly, the first bier wasn't sold until the 8th year of the fest in 1818 and the first large bier tent wasn't set up until 1896. Before that, only small bier stands sold bier. The main events of the early days were horse racing (stopped in 1960) and an agricultural show that is still held every three years.

The Oktoberfest grounds are over 100 acres large and host a dazzling array of bier tents, food stands, carnival rides, games and more. Many families enjoy taking the children to Oktoberfest and in fact, Tuesdays at the Fest are family days with reduced food, bier and ride prices.

This years is the 176th Wiesn!!

We, me and two friend, go to the "Winzerer Fähndl" tent number 6

Name	Brewery	Seating
		inside	outside
1/ Hippodrom	Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu	3,200	1,000
2/ Armbrustschützenzelt	Paulaner	5,839	1,600
3/ Hofbräu-Festzelt	Hofbräu München	6,896	3,622
4/ Hacker-Festzelt	Hacker-Pschorr	6,900	2,400
5/ Schottenhamel	Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu	6,000	4,000
6/ Winzerer Fähndl	Paulaner	8,450	2,450
7/ Schützen-Festhalle	Löwenbräu	4,442	0
8/ Käfers Wiesen Schänke	Paulaner	1,000	1,900
9/ Weinzelt	Nymphenburger Sekt	1,300	600
	Paulaner Weißbier
10/ Löwenbräu-Festhalle	Löwenbräu	5,700	2,800
11/ Bräurosl	Hacker-Pschorr	6,000	2,200
12/ Augustiner-Festhalle	Augustiner Bräu	6,000	2,500
13/ Ochsenbraterei	Spaten	5,900	1,500
14/ Fischer Vroni	Augustiner	2,695	700

extract from this website (click for more information on different tent) : http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/wiesn-map-popup/

The outside on the morning at around 8H30 :

Different tent :
"Winzerer Fähndl",not the front but only the tower and you can see under the left side (where we entered)

The entrance at 9o'clock when they open the door, this masses push and shove to enter! I even see a man who lost one of his shoes

The waitress with there 8 or 10 mass of beer (a waiters can take 12 mass 6 in each hand!!)
A mass is one liter of beer, and it weigh a bit more 2,2 kg.
So a women hold between 8,8kg and 11 kg in one hand and a man is 13,2kg!!
You should to be really well trained for doing this all the afternoon, I don't want to test their strong
Our table :

Ein prosit, ein prosit, der Gemütlichkeit!!     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGF1wFj9FSI
The french friend which I go there ( Marie and Jérémy) :

Me at different time :
The place where all the mass are ordered and cleaned!! :

A inside view of the tent :
Before 12o'clock when we have to wait 12 for drink beer, before only eating and free alcohol drink is allowed!! So people just speak, read newspaper, or try to find a place it's quiet!!
We didn't find place but we seat on a reserved table (reserved for 12 to 22) and hoping we can stay there!! We are finaly lucky, it was the musicien table and they allow us to stay there!!
At 12o'clock, all people climb on the bench...
The countdown ( ...sieben, sechs, funf, vier, drei, zwei, eins!!!)
After 12o'clock, at around 15H after, maybe, 2 mass

A little overview of men wearing Lederhose :
A "little" overview of women wearing Dirndl :

For more photos, you can go there : http://www.wiezn.de/index.php?id=992&L=1