The loud booming sound of German festival music awoke me and Elise this morning. Yesterday we had thought that was the last day of Karneval but we were pleasantly surprised this morning to hear it was one more day. This holiday is so big that they even closed schools today so everyone could celebrate one last day. We ate some toast with Nutella and caught up on the desperate housewives episode missed from the previous night then headed out to brace the streets of Dusseldorf once again. First day of Karneval seemed to be the children and parents, second day seemed to be teens and young adults... today it was everyone. Everyone gathered in the streets dressed up, Elise and I wore out German flag coloured leis so we could try to blend in as much has possible. As we were walking down the street a guy yelled to us in English and said "Hey girl, I am liking that bandanna" I firstly getting thrown off by the fact he was speaking English and secondly confused by the fact he liked our "bandannas" since we weren't wearing any gave him a weird look and then turned away without saying anything; it seemed like the logical thing to do at the time.
Unfortunately this was unacceptable to him he yelled once again "Hey thanks for ignoring me!" paused then called me a "B****". I then thought up multiple rhetorical things I could have said back but it was too late, probably for the better anyways. Even though after this minor upset, Elise and I managed to have a blast, we crammed ourselves into the crowed to watch yet another parade go by, and man do these Germans have some good parades. We all dance and yell and sing and wave our arms, while people throw candy at us. Unlike the parades we have back home when the people in the parade gently hand the goodies to children, Germans throw the stuff around everywhere and everyone goes for it and it sure is a battle. Adults throwing themselves on the floor to beat that little 4 year old to the pieced of crushed, half unwrapped candy that was just thrown into the crowd. It is pretty nuts! One lady even hip checked Elise so she could get to a piece of candy that had just fallen right next to a little child, luckily she managed to get it before the child or Elise could ;). The buses were closed due to the Karneval so Elise and I had to walk home. On the way we stopped at a store that I thought looked like it could be a grocery store, so we decided to check it out and by golly we found the Costco of Deutschland. We were so happy and relieved since our grocery selection so far had been quite limited. We planned out a nice dinner of tortellini soup, unfortunately when it came down to it we lazied out and just had tortellini with tomato sauce instead, maybe tomorrow we will cook something more exquisite. Elise and I today have been down to our last pair of clean clothes since we were confused about the washer and our landlord had been out of town so no wash had been done. Luckily that evening there was a knock at our door and it was our good old landlord Marcel, he showed us how it worked so tomorrow we shall be looking our freshest!
Unfortunately this was unacceptable to him he yelled once again "Hey thanks for ignoring me!" paused then called me a "B****". I then thought up multiple rhetorical things I could have said back but it was too late, probably for the better anyways. Even though after this minor upset, Elise and I managed to have a blast, we crammed ourselves into the crowed to watch yet another parade go by, and man do these Germans have some good parades. We all dance and yell and sing and wave our arms, while people throw candy at us. Unlike the parades we have back home when the people in the parade gently hand the goodies to children, Germans throw the stuff around everywhere and everyone goes for it and it sure is a battle. Adults throwing themselves on the floor to beat that little 4 year old to the pieced of crushed, half unwrapped candy that was just thrown into the crowd. It is pretty nuts! One lady even hip checked Elise so she could get to a piece of candy that had just fallen right next to a little child, luckily she managed to get it before the child or Elise could ;). The buses were closed due to the Karneval so Elise and I had to walk home. On the way we stopped at a store that I thought looked like it could be a grocery store, so we decided to check it out and by golly we found the Costco of Deutschland. We were so happy and relieved since our grocery selection so far had been quite limited. We planned out a nice dinner of tortellini soup, unfortunately when it came down to it we lazied out and just had tortellini with tomato sauce instead, maybe tomorrow we will cook something more exquisite. Elise and I today have been down to our last pair of clean clothes since we were confused about the washer and our landlord had been out of town so no wash had been done. Luckily that evening there was a knock at our door and it was our good old landlord Marcel, he showed us how it worked so tomorrow we shall be looking our freshest!
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