This past weekend Grady and I traveled west once again to visit good friends Eric and Jen. After arriving early Friday morning from an overnight train, we spent the day
shopping, resting, and hanging out before packing up our stuff Saturday afternoon. Then we got all dressed up (which consisted merely of face paint for me...hey, I'm pregnant-!) and headed north to the city of Cologne (Koeln, in German) to experience the height of Carnival--a season beginning on Nov 11 and climaxing on Rose Monday (today!). Picture, if you will, the city center area crammed with people of all ages and the odd ones out being the people NOT dressed in something crazy! It's like a super-sized Halloween party full of parades, street vendors and a general good time. But after a few hours of walking around I was sure ready to lay in a nice comfy bed for the night! 
We met some nice people and saw some really great costumes and it's especially fun being in an atmosphere where there's not such a "social norm" to adhere to--everyone looks odd so that becomes normal! We even had a man ask, "Sprichst du Deutsch?" meaning, "Do you speak German?" (IN German) which really made us laugh! We're in Germany, and HE's asking us if WE speak German?! Goes to show what a mixture of people can be found there! It was a truly tradiational German celebration and we were glad to take part in a bit of it.
3 comments:
You should have dressed up as a pregnant woman. That would have been funny.
(I posted this comment earlier and then my computer messed up and said it was deleted. Perhaps I pressed the wrong button. So if it's on your comment thing twice, then sorry!)
Sounds like fun. :)
The two of you are too cute!!!
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