Ein Proesit, ein Proesit....der Gemuetlichkeit....Ein Proesit, Ein Proesit der Gemuetlichkeit! Eins....Zwei....Drei....G'suffa! Zicke, zacke, zicke, zacke, hoi, hoi, hoi... Zicke, zacke, zicke, zacke, hoi, hoi, hoi... Proest!
Well.....I'm feeling like I'm part Zombie, part Easter Island Statue....not exactly coherent, and moving with the flexibility of a rock. The good news is that the 2009 Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest is over again for another year.
Got home this afternoon from tear down at the Festhalle and decided to eat something before crawling into bed....something that wasn't schnitzel, wurst, sauerkraut, kartofelsalat, or struedel. So defrosted a big prime rib steak, fired up the grill and went at it. Then I crashed and got up not that long ago. For some reason its taking me waaaaaaaay too long to type this...having to make waaaaaaaay too many corrections since it doesn't appear that my fingers are in anyway connected to my brain....and seeing straight is still not in the cards. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, yes, the post-Oktoberfest fatigue factor! After 18 to 20 hour days for the past 12 days, I'm not quite feeling up to my normal speed.....gee, ya think?
Last night about 2 hours before close, I was talking with one of the Provincial liquor inspectors. Looked at him and said "almost over". He laughed and said "Are you counting down?" Told him, "Darn straight....1 hour and 58 minutes to go officially before we can start to kick them out the door.....oops....escort them out...encourage them out....clean up and head to bed, only to be back for 0800 for teardown." He laughed. I told him I'd booked most of Tuesday to sleep....and god forbid anybody should try to wake me. LOL
Preliminary calculations indicate our Kiwanis Club and more importantly the more than 40 volunteer/non-profit groups that helped us by partnering with man-power to run our Festhalle are going to be happy with the bottom line. Last year we were able to donate over $75,000CDN from proceeds to the groups that assisted us. Plus more to other projects. We're hoping it will be close to that this year. So as tired as I am....and my fellow committee members that work all year to put it together....its definitely worth it.
And for all those that attended, a heartfelt thank you. I did see a few other tomato/pepperheads who had me paged to meet them at the front door. I wasn't working it for the first time in 10 years. I did manage to see one materhead on the first Saturday night that was probably as colourful as a Brandywine! Ah yes....beer, good food and getting schnapped on schnapps!
Proest Everybody! I'm going back to bed now.
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