BIER Mountain and Laura's

Good morning everyone!! So...I didn't post yesterday...mainly because I was exhausted, and sore, and a little drunk. That, and we wanted to watch Once Upon a Time...so there was no posting...sorry :(

Yesterday, was one of Greg's first Sundays off in what seems like FOREVER...so we went up to Bear Mountain for some hiking, and walking around. It was a beautiful fall day, and we wanted to take FULL advantage of it. We got up there around 11am, and learned that it was also Oktoberfest...which meant a LOT of beer, and food, and music...and fun-ness...but it didn't really start until 12pm.

So...we began to hike...started with some stairs made of rock...and we just kept going...until we reached about half-way up the mountain...we were LITERALLY climbing the mountain on stairs, and I had just about had enough...my hips hurt, my knees hurt, and I couldn't do it anymore...so Greg bribed me with some beer (yay!), and we went back down the mountain, walked right over to Oktoberfest, and grabbed some beers (Stiegl & Franziskaner among others) and food. YUM!!! We had an AMAZING day - talked about everything, did our fair share of judging (LOL)...and just relaxed...
I took a lot of pictures yesterday, but here's the highlights...notice the little Bavarian boy...had to take a picture of him - he was just so friggin' cute!!!

We left around 3pm because we had to get to a friend's housewarming party...we BARELY made it off the mountain, and it started to rain...half-way off, it started to HAIL. Um...what? Weird...here's a picture of that...