“If you told any city official anywhere you were going to build 12 tents, each holding 7,000 people, serve beer brewed way more potent than average and invite the world to their city, who in their right mind would say yes?”
The beer and the maypole dancers seemed to cheer him up a bit and we laughed every time the band played a song we knew so well from Oktoberfests back home. We were also highly amused at the incongruity of sitting in a makeshift biergarten looking at New Jersey.
