Sausagefest

Friday.

Spiderman and I decided to go shopping. We headed over to Fairview Park Mall using the 7B which took forever. Once there, we grabbed lunch. I was craving Greek so I opted for Opa!'s platter. It was a lot of food and quite salty, but really good.

After lunch, Spiderman and I decided to check out some of the stores. We didn't find much and neither of us ended up buying anything for ourselves. We took the iXpress to campus and ended up walking back for fear of another hauntingly long trip aboard the 7.

Saturday.

Today, Lapin is visiting! After seeing her all summer, I was really beginning to miss her company in Waterloo, although Spiderman did help to fill the void. She was to arrive around noon and so I woke up at 9 hoping to do a little cleaning beforehand.

Once she was here, JAM decided to head out for lunch. We headed towards Conestoga Mall because we were going to catch the 3:50 showing of the Social Network just before heading to Oktoberfest. No one could really decide what they wanted to eat, so we opted for Spring Rolls, our default option. I recalled they had their dim sum menu on weekends which seemed to intrigue Spiderman and Lapin. We ended up ordering a few dim sum dishes along with pad thai which was extremely pretty. Sadly, we all forgot to take pictures.

We finished lunch around 3 leaving us with roughly an hour before our movie. Afraid it was going to be sold out, we bought our tickets before exploring the rest of the mall. Seeing as most of the mall was pretty common, we left early in search of seats in the theatre all the while wondering why we left in the first place. Overall, the movie was surprisingly good. It left us in a sort of angry state due to Mark Zuckerberg's portrayal. Either way, we ended up rushing back to my place to meet up the housemates before heading to Oktoberfest.

We arrived a little late finding none of my housemates there. I gave them a call and they were already aboard the bus with ALL the tickets and a message telling us to meet them there. Sadly, none of us knew where "there" was, so we ventured off. We made it just in time to meet the cut off at 8 after being led through some shotty directions. I'm not sure if it was "lucky" per se as it was being held in a tent. Yes, a tent.

There was a band that played some "German" music. Overall they were decent however, I'm almost sure they replayed some of their earlier songs when we arrived. I'm sure some people we too drunk to notice, but not I. Seeing as it was Oktoberfest, we were excited to sample some German food. We headed out back because as stated earlier, it was a tent, to a vendor that was selling sausages and schnitzel. JAM ordered a sausage each and a large fries to share. We were extremely hungry and dug in once they came out. Sadly, our first bite gave away the secret behind the vendors. They used sausages purchased out of a grocery store. There was no authenticity in the meal which left us with a bitter taste in our mouth. Pun intended.

After our meal, we decided to see if the beer was any better as the Kitchener Oktoberfest is popular for it's crazy drinking parties among students. For the third time, Oktoberfest let us down. The beer was Molsen; hardly german in any manner. Lapin and Spiderman shared half a cup while I finished the rest.

I suppose the highlight of the night was when the MC of the event pointed me out for not standing during some sort of drinking cheer. He "let me off" saying it was because I probably didn't speak English. Also, he called my hat funny. A little embarrassed and slightly outraged, JAM left early spending a total time of one hour at Oktoberfest.

We caught the bus back and headed towards Spiderman's place to hang out a bit. We talked about things that I usually never talk about. It was sort of awkward and I really didn't know what to say. Around 11:30, we all headed over to my place, including Spiderman, because he needed a place to study free of his annoying next door neighbour.

We ordered pizza and chatted for a while. Lapin and I watched I Love You, Man while Spiderman studied. After the movie was done, we tried to fall asleep, but ended up talking more until finally, we drifted off. Three hours later, we awoke and began chatting again. Lapin had to catch her bus at 9, so we walked her over.

After dropping her off, Spiderman and I went back to sleep.

Not together of course.