Every year my crazy family has the tradition of attending the annual tapping of the Golden Keg event Friday morning at Oktoberfest. We all meet at Sloopy's at 7:00 am bright and early on Friday. My Uncle Rick...aka "Dr. Rock" plays live at Sloopy's on the radio and the bar is so packed that you can't even move. There are old people, young people, crazy people...it's a blast. We really aren't big boozers but we have such a good time at this yearly event. As you can see in the picture...we always bring our crows. My Dad and his brothers have always had a thing with crows...and they have a crow caww to go with it. I don't really get it, but they are pretty funny. Two years ago my Uncle Paul brough a plastic crow on a stick to the fest and attatched a clothes pin to the beak. He stuck dollar pills in it and would put it over the crowd when we went to Del's, after Sloopy's, to pay the bar tenders. This year, they let us be in the little parade on the way to tap the Golden Keg at the South Side Fest Grounds. He even made a huge banner that said "Polish people going to drink beer". It was pretty funny...the only bad thing was one of our crows was stolen!!!! If anyone sees a crow on a stick with an Aaron Rodgers jersey on...he belongs to me!!
I bet your family would be fun to party with. Great idea with the clothspin on a pole to pay bartenders. I had never thought of that. I've also never been to the tapping of the golden keg. Maybe next year I will check it out. It sounds like a pretty good time.
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