But first, a pic from the Robert Burns night. This was a slightly more refined get-together (what with the poetry and all), even if it was rather soaked in scotch.
Alistair addressing the haggis
Now Karneval!
On the first day, Wieberfastnacht (something about girls' night-- I'm serious), we went out in the afternoon suitably attired and walked around our neighborhood to see everyone's costumes. My favorite was a girl dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood (Rotkaeppchen). There were tons of sailors and pirates, Native Americans, 70s guys by way of Wes Anderson, and a surprisingly large amount of people dressed like plants. Then, we met up with Jer's friend Axel from the lab at a local watering-hole-turned-disco. When I say "met up" I mean "waited outside for an hour to get into the place in the cold because it was completely packed". While we waited, we were entertained by a Baroque Buffoon Band.
Inside the disco, it was 500 degrees (Celsius), but we had lots of fun dancing around and pretending to sing the Koelsch songs.
The next day, a joke presented itself:
So, a Caveman, a Mexican, a Geisha, and a Cowgirl walk into bar...
A Sushi bar!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
On Saturday and Sunday we decided to lay low.
Tomorrow we are going to the big parade, and on Tuesday they burn the scarecrows. You know, the kind of scarecrows that collect all the bad things you did on Karneval. When you burn them, your soul is fresh and clean for Lent.
5 comments:
Loved the costumes. Save them for Halloween when you are back in the USA. Good joke - it took me a few minutes!
Totally Petey joke.
So much fun!! Very jealous.
I don't know why you had to go to Germany to do all that... you could just come to Savannah, GA... they are just like that all year round...lots of people walking around looking like jeremy in his cosutme on a daily basis.
toph:
which costume, the sailor or the caveman?
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