Saturday, March 19, 2011

Video from the closing ceremonies of Fasnet. You'll hear all the people mourning in the first video.

In the above video you can hear and see the people mourning as they process in (I like the white haired man) and then they wheel in the witch!

In this one you cannot see much, but I like the song and you can see the outline (exciting, I know) of the clap board costumes.

The burning of the witch. I don't think I have video the fireworks shooting out from it.

This video has a song that is new to us. Neither of us remembers it from last year. After the witch was finished burning, everyone that paraded into the center then skipped around the witch playing this song. This video has the song as they are parading/skipping back out. If you listen carefully, you can hear the clapping of the clap board costumes.

There are more poor quality videos, but I think this is enough.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Here are some video clips from Fasnacht 2011.

The villagers coming to the Institute. It was not until much later that I realized what some of the costumes were and how some could be seen as offensive.

After the villagers stormed the castle, the Baron gave a speech, music was played and food and the Baron's homemade Schnapps were passed around. This is the closest we've been to the front of the castle.

The Wooly Mammoth from the car races! This was Tim's favorite. They only ran down the hill once, I'm pretty sure they did not win the race for fastest.

More video to come later.