Fasching Dienstag--aka Mardi Gras

Went downtown for the annual Fasching Dienstag parade. It was loud, mobbed with people, so I just got some photos and left the 'madness'. It was 3 degrees plus, so nothing too wild in the way of costumes. There were a gaggle of kids dressed as lambs with a girl as shepherdess, and the lambs would try to break loose, and she would try to herd them back in. Cute, but they moved too fast. And a man with a weird pair of pants with a fake nekkid ass hanging out with a lipstick kiss on one cheek, and a huuuuge safety pin in his nose. It was odd enough, I guess... You can click through the rest as you wish. The Slovenians had something similar to our Krampus, but the masks are very tiny with birdlike beaks, sort of look like Ibus heads. Very strange.