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[image:565,left,5,5]On Friday night, Andy's band (the Ottawa Rube Band -- they are [former?] members of the Baden Rube Band, I think...or at the very least, Andy's dad Wayne was) played at JIJ's. Also, Jessie came up to visit from Toronto.

[image:566,right,5,5]The Hacker-Pschorr seemed even more delicious than usual -- although it was hard to get another pint with how busy the place was. Irene Ann did a great job of keeping a tally of what everyone was drinking.

So a bunch of us hung out there for about 4 hours or so, doing some clapping, some "eins, zwei, drei -- saufe!" (which most Canadians mangle into "sofa"...which sounds strange), etc. The NewRO sent a cameraman by, and Jessie helped by carrying his bag around. Yes, we did get on TV, although I don't think anyone has a record of it.

Then we hopped in a cab to go to the bus station to pick up Brenda and Marty, who were coming in from Toronto to go to a wedding. Well, Rob ordered us a pair of cabs, and we put people in the first one, then Dave and I were just about to get into the second one...only two other people had already climbed in.

[image:562,left,5,5]Which is how we met the Dude from Texas. He may have given us his name, and I remember that his friend (right) gave his name, but I don't remember what it actually was. I do seem to remember playing Ultimate against him before, which is pretty common in Ottawa.

[image:563,right,5,5]This other picture has Dave on the left and the Dude from Texas on the right. I don't know how we got into it, but since this site is back up again, I figured that Dave and I could make the phrase "Dude from Texas" have this post (with his picture) the number one result in Google inside a week or two. Hopefully Dave will post something about this too -- that should help.

So, that was the first part of Oktoberfest, which starts in September because October just isn't long enough. Next stop: Kitchener-Waterloo, St. Jakob's Market, and Alix's parents house.