Rosenmontagszug

Last Monday was the famous Rosenmontag of Karneval. In celebration, the entire city of Münster shutdown (well almost the entire city). In addition there was one of the longest parades I have seen. I think we watched for about 2 1/2 to 3 hours, and we were even walking towards the end. I did manage to snap a picture of every float in that parade though. I think there was somewhere in the area of 80 - 90 floats. Here are, what I think, some of the best pictures from that parade (Rosenmontagszug):

Note: These models move. For example, the blue guy tilted towards you and a mouse fell out of the cup.

One of the more political floats in the parade. This one is portraying Germany as the mother pig with all the other EU country piglets feeding from it.

Umbrella = perfect candy catcher!

The float of the Prince!

And thanks to Rosenmontag, it was only a three day week for us. Boy do I enjoy having Fridays off. It does throw you off though. I keep thinking that Friday is Saturday, Saturday is Sunday, and Sunday is that well-sought after extra day in the week.

Tomorrow, Sunday, we head off to Hamburg on a group trip. Should be lots of fun and lots of camera button clicking. We probably won't get a chance to blog until next weekend when we get back. Lots of stories and pictures to come.

Bis nächstes Wochenende!

Jake