Homesick

Sadly, there are a few occasions when I am homesick for Germany.
Many are of private nature, as parents birthdays and their days of passing, but some are absolutely frivolous like Carnival and New Years Eve.
What would I give for another New Years Eve party with dinner , dance and followed by watching the fireworks at midnight.Scare away the bad spirits and welcome the new year. It appears that here in Canada are allowed to linger and create havoc for as long as they want. Good example , look at the current state of politics . Harper could have easily been scared away with the right amount of fireworks and rejoicing!
Yesterday was Rosenmontag , the main event in a series of special occasions during the time of carnival  which starts on 11.11 at 11:11in Germany.Note in Canada this day  is Remembrance day, starting on 11.11 at 11:11.
How much more dreary can it possibly be?
Rosenmontag is dedicated to showing parades everywhere , with floats displaying witty, tongue in cheek ways of day to day events of  political, religious and sexual nature.People attend to have a good time, which involves singing along, dancing on the streets , throwing of candy and perhaps the odd glass of beer being consumed. Yes, candies are being thrown, without danger of being sued, if you see a candy flying at you, just duck, that is all there is to it.
However , Prinz Werner and Prinzessin  Heike took matters in their  own hands and created the setting.
We sat out on our porch and pretended to take in the "Zuch"(the parade).
We had our own Prinzengarde, die Schwarzweissen Funken , (our black and white cats ) to honour our presence and songs from the carnival in Cologne were playing in the background.
The Gewurztraminer went down nicely, while we reminisced about fun carnival memories.
As always , we had more fun pretending  than we anticipated and the day ended with a tear or two for not being where the action is and some Kamelle (candies ) to soothe the pain.