4th Day

Today was going to be another day of rest for me. I woke up this morning feeling like my gut was eating itself, i felt sick to my stomache and didnt want to have another drink for a LONG time. Leave it to my guest family to keep the party going.

I woke up this morning to a great breakfast. My host mom had out all the good stuff to eat. I didnt wake up until 10 so I ate a little for breakfast and an hour later my host dad was popping open the sect. I didnt want to upset my family so I drank it. I drank it as fast as I could so than I didnt have to longate the process of my stomach hurting, but than I guess since I drank my the fastest I won. What did I win another glass full of sect. I was glad when I heard the drums starting for the parade to start... that meant no more alchole for me.

I went with my host brother and his friends and we were walking down the street. They were playing all the traditional Karneval songs and people were dancing in the street and people were giving away beer... literally. The parade started and everyone was in costume, the people in the crowds were also wearing costumes too, the people in the parade were throwing out candy on every float... not just once piece here and there so kids could fight over it.. They were literally throwing buckets out. I had to cover my head because candy was being dumped right out the sides the the floats. My host family and I collected so much candy, it was every kids fantasy to get as much candy as we did. My host mom told me that if I didnt like the candy just to throw it at the kids...haha no i didnt hit the kids I would just toss it so they would get it. Kind of like fetch but with children and candy and they never brought it back. Some of the people in the parades were giving out beer to, and every other float people would hand out plastic shot glasses and give everyone a shot of some kind of liqour. I thought it was funny because I could just imagine being in Ogallala and having the people pass out beer, and shots. Everyone would think they were crazy or would look down apon them, but here everyone was okay with it.

The weather was not so good either so people were dacing and drinking in the rain. My host family made the comment that people in germany drink in bad weather, and its true. All the drinking holidays are when there is bad weather. The parade was great and I wish I would of had a camera to take photos of it because it was really fun to watch. Normally when I go to parades Im just waiting for the end of them, I never really cared to much for them but here parades werent just for the kids, adults were yelling for candy just as much as the kids were.
Once the parade was over we headed back to the house... where my host family popped open another bottle of sect. Luckly this time though I drank it so slow that the whole bottle was gone before I finsihed mine.

Tomorrow I will be going to a even bigger parade in Koln, and than maybe bonn and there are usually a million people watching these parades so it will be like twice the size of omahas parade..:D it will be great.