There were a lot of people wearing traditional Bavarian attire at the Denver Oktoberfest this past Saturday afternoon. In fact, here in Denver, people tend to dress up in costumes for all kinds of events, including Mardi Gras, Comic Con (known as Fan Expo Denver here), the Zombie Crawl (if it ever returns after Denver finishes tearing up the 16th Street Mall, where it has always been held), Halloween, and, of course, Dia de los Muertos, which is very popular here. Most of the celebrating for all these events takes place in the Lower Downtown (LoDo), River North (RiNo), and Ballpark neighborhoods, where a very large population of young singles and couples live in very expensive high-rise apartments (no doubt needing 10 or so roommates to afford it). And they seem to be more into donning costumes than senior citizens like me.
Of course, the costumes worn at Oktoberfest are very traditional and charming, as opposed to other events such as Halloween and the Zombie Crawl. The Zombie Crawl participants can be especially grotesque, but seem to have a lot of fun limping around, scaring the hell out of people. In any case, the good news is that the Denver Oktoberfest will take place next weekend, too, and so you can put on your lederhosen and dirndl dresses and head on over to 21st and Larimer Streets, in the Ballpark neighborhood, and raise a few steins to celebrate the season. And since the Colorado Rockies will be playing their final games of the year just a block or so away, be sure to raise a stein to them to celebrate not making the postseason for a sixth straight year. Tee times at the golf course will happily not have to be canceled. Perhaps some of the players will actually head over to Oktoberfest after the game, sign autographs, and drown their sorrows in very pricey beer. One can only hope.
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