This is starting to feel like a trend... Posting the events from the previous weekend on Friday! :) This past weekend was spent like many of our previous weekends... Skiing on Saturday and going to a Fasnet parade on Sunday... I'm really enjoying this time of year! :)
We were quite excited about skiing on Saturday! We woke up bright and early to the news that it was going to be perfect weather for skiing, and the ski area had gotten 11 cm of new snow overnight... Woohoo! :) So, we spent Saturday skiing in fresh powder snow, while soaking up the sunshine, and enjoying ourselves immensely!! It was such a fun day of skiing!
On Sunday, we headed to Feldkirch, Austria to check out their Fasnet parade. It was actually our first time in Feldkirch, and after seeing a small portion of the city, we decided that we'd like to go back to visit again at some point, so that we can see a little more of it... It was such a cute Austrian town! :)
The parade was pretty good, but Brian and I agreed that we like the German Fasnet parades a little better. :) This one was extremely long and the crowd was quite obnoxious (i.e. there were tons of drunken teenagers walking around!! Grrrr!! In case you didn't know, the drinking age is 16 here, so they can drink at an extremely young age. I understand the concept behind the younger drinking age, but I still can't get over the fact that they're so drunk at such a young age, which usually results in VERY obnoxious behavior!)... But, we didn't let that spoil our fun... We still enjoyed ourselves while loudly chanting the slogans for each group, snapping lots of pictures, and trying to catch the candy that was being thrown into the crowd... Fun times! :)
This weekend is actually the final weekend of Fasnet for the year, so we've got lots of parades and fun Fasnet related activities in store for us! We're very much looking forward to it! :) So, be prepared for a Fasnet themed blog post in the near future! :) Have a great weekend!
The guys getting ready for a day of skiing...
The girls... :)
Ready to hit the slopes! :)
Maciej showing off some moves...
... Nice! :)
Maike on her way down...
Here comes Eva! :)
And then it was my turn to show off my skills...
Wait for it... :)
(Notice that things don't look like they're going so well right here?? :))
And there she goes! :)
Those were my impressive skills of the day!
Jealous, aren't you? :)
A perfect ski day...
Since Brian is typically the photographer, he doesn't get many action shots of himself... So, here I made him at least pose for a picture so that he can have proof that he is actually there skiing! :)
And here's another shot where I actually look like I know what I'm doing! :)
We took a short break (with pretty much every other skier that day) to sit in the sun and have a snack...
While Brian and Maciej skied back to the car, I opted to take the cable car back down (some of the runs on the way down the mountain are a much higher level than I ski at... And you all saw how "well" I do at skiing! So, it's in everyone's best interest that I don't even attempt those slopes! :))... This was the view I got to see on the way down... Wow!!
One of the hexen in the parade in Feldkirch...
Some of the costumes and groups were new to us, such as this one...
Clowning around... :)
This was new to us as well... These people were zipping around on scooters! :)
This lady was loving her scooter... In fact, she almost took out some spectators, she was having so much fun! :)
This festival is almost like their version of Halloween here. Everyone dresses up, and instead of "trick-or-treating", the kids bring bags to the parades, and the characters give them candy! :)
This was a new one to us... I wasn't a big fan...
This was also a costume we hadn't seen before... Very creepy!!
This character grabbed this girl with his chain and dragged her down the street with him... Although, she really didn't seem to mind. :)
Here's what I meant about obnoxious kids... Throughout the parade, drunk teenagers would climb under the rope barricades and dance in the streets or mess with the characters walking in the parade... I found myself wanting to go into "teacher mode" and tell the kids that they were not making wise choices! :)
The Hugeloh costume...
This musical group was very bright and cheery! :)
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