kamelle

good golly we had us quite the karneval weekend! it's gonna take a while to blog our way through everything, but let's get started with... candy, or kamelle, as it's called in the local cologne dialect. we went to the big parade in cologne yesterday with corinna (many many pictures will be forthcoming), but parade isn't quite the right word -- it's really a candy delivery system. i sure remember getting candy at my fair share of parades when i was a kid, but i've never seen anything on a scale like this before. here's our haul.that's about 4 1/2 hours worth of parade work, and we weren't even trying that hard -- there were lots of people (adults, no less) around us who were being super aggressive, lunging after every last piece on the ground or working over the marchers to get them to cough up yet one more treat. you can see from the picture that there was some serious stuff given out -- lots of proper-sized chocolate bars, for example. we even saw someone get measuring spoons(!?), but alas, we weren't quite so fortunate. and i'll have you know that p held up quite well physically!