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.

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.

Video from Tim's Birthday weekend

Tim starts at the top, he's easiest to pick out about mid point when he appears to nearly collide with a little kid.

This morning Tim had to do some work at the Institute. When he came home he asked if I'd looked outside yet. It currently is difficult to do so because of all the snow on the sky lights, but I had been out on the balcony. And oh my! The Alps were out in full force!! Amazing! So we had lunch and went for a walk. I took a little video, but as always, it does not capture the beauty.


It was such a pretty and peaceful walk. Until some hooligan decided to sled down the hills on their back. How immature.



But it was too much fun! I had to climb back up the hill and go again :)

Oktoberfest

Here are a few of the video clips from Oktoberfest. They are not the best, but fun anyway (at least to me!)!


This clip shows how the people going on the ride get up to the level of the stairs. It looks like fun!



This is not a great clip, but it gives you an idea of the atmosphere and size of the tent.



The very end of the 'Ein Prosit' song. If you listen carefully you can hear me trying to get Tim's attention, as usual I have to say his name at least twice.



A little more of the song.

Savannah being spoiled

Yesterday (Saturday) Savannah was a queen of begging. She was meowing at us to give her some thing every time we turned around. Apparently, we were not giving her the right things though. She got fresh water in all of her bowls and multiple ice cubes. Though, she really does not seem all that interested in the ice, but we keep giving it to her because she used to like them! Finally I handed Tim the bag with her treats and she was finally happy. We like how she grabs Tim's arm to try to get the treat and you can see her use her front legs some times to help the food go in her mouth. We think it's cute, you may think we're losers...

People watching in Mainau

Carrie, Wolf and I recently went to Mainau. It's a small island with tons of flowers, a Schloss, a butterfly garden and an awesome playground. If it wasn't to busy that day I would have been playing. In the playground area there are these log rafts that these kids were playing on. It looks like a lot of fun, but it also looks like a recipe for disaster! After I finished recording this we were sitting in the sand box and Carrie noticed a soaking wet little boy crying while his mother and her friends undressed him and rung out his clothes. If you look closely in the video there's a boy in a green hooded sweatshirt on the furthest raft. I believe he is the boy who fell in. We later saw this.















Apparently, this is a regular occurrence.