No prize for me.

I went to this Oktoberfest event with a few people from work yesterday. It was held at the "Holiday Inn Near the University of Michigan", which happens to be behind the building I work. I guess it was some sort of a customer appreciation thing. We were invited because we refer a lot of our visitors to that hotel. (BTW, I think I'm supposed to say Friendliest Hotel in Ann Arbor.)

I didn't really know what was going on, but I decided to go. And it's a good thing I did! FREE FOOD AND BOOZE. All you can eat and all you can drink. For food, they had bratwursts, käsespätzle, sauerkraut, German red cabbage, German warm potato salad, pretzels, and 3 kinds of mustards. They had apple strudel and doughnuts. They had two types of beer: Warsteiner (I think pilsner type of beer) and some sort of Oktoberfest ale. They had hard liquor but I decided to stick with beer.

When we got there, we each got a ticket. It was like a raffle, except I didn't have to buy the ticket! It was free! There were several gifts that were given out. Our group had 2 winners! VN won a $50 gift certificate to Metzger's and AB won a 2 nights stay at the Holiday Inn Cambridge, ON! Me? Nothing. I was 4 numbers away from the grand prize: Lufthansa round trip ticket to Germany! But instead, Kenneth Gunther is going to Germany. I don't even know him. I just thought he has an awesome last name.

But that's okay. One of the prizes was a 1 hour hot tub gift certificate from Oasis. And I definitely don't want that!!!

Here's the good news. I got lots of good food & beer all for free!!! I had 2 dinner plates, a plate of desserts, and 5 beers in the course of about an hour and a half. But the beer glasses must have only been like 8 oz. (It's like drinking a 40!) The bartender guy was pretty close to giving me a pitcher of beer but he didn't because he didn't want other people ask him to do the same. So I just double fisted. Good times.

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There's nothing like burnt frozen meal from Lean Cuisine. Mmmm.