Fasching

Not much going on this week, but I realized earlier that we hadn't posted any snappy snaps of the German Mardi Gras - called Fasching. Here's a pic of a guy in a broccoli suit. Oddly enough, he was not the only person I saw dressed as broccoli. (Although I didn't see any other costumes that represented the vegetable kingdom around).

Kate and I went as cowpokes. Here's me.

And here's Kate unashamedly eating something that most likely contains cow.

As you may have guessed, Fasching is to Germans what Halloween is to Americans - a good excuse to dress up in whatever you have around the house (e.g., a broccoli suit). As such, people dress up in junk and call it a theme.

Take, for example, the below picture. In it, you'll see the following: Dorothy, who is wearing a blue wig, of course; the scare crow, whose costume consists of suspenders and an alien mask; perhaps another scare crow with a funny Bavarian hat; and a girl dressed as a sexy cat (perhaps representing Toto?).

Much like Mardi Gras, there are also symbolic floats that mean something to someone. This one, however, means nothing.