Fasching

Spur of the moment costumes. Mine was completed by a workout headband and a jeweled headband. It’s Carnival season here, so when we decided whether or not to wear costumes out last night, of course the logical answer was YES. When my friend texted me “bring a costume”, my immediate response was, yep, I can […]

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Rosenmontag

one piece animal snuggies: costume of choice for Rosenmontag karneval partiers. I had an awesome Monday. Monday, the ugly duckling of days. It really is underestimated. It’s usually not really that difficult of a day, considering everyone’s dragging from the weekend. It’s a day of easing back into things. Tuesday is the real dark horse […]

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Karneval

It’s karneval (or carnival) here in this part of Germany (Fastnacht in other cities, or Fasching in southern Germany, referring to the last serving of alcohol before Lent). However, it’s been karneval here since November, and it’s about to come to an end. People had mentioned it here and there, but I guess I didn’t […]

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