Dä Hoppeditz is wedder da! Helau!

We made it! We woke him up! At 11:11 h am. Well, the carneval fans in Düsseldorf did. In Berlin, the day was slightly different. I tried to have as much tradition from my hometown as I could get in Prussia. Which meant: Cologne style, not Düsseldorf. Well. Ok. We can manage.
On my way to carneval at Gaffel-Haus, where they would show the carneval party at Heumarkt in Cologne, snowflakes covered me from head to toe. I might have done a snowman as disguise. ;)
Instead, I had put on my Düsseldorf-t-shirt and decorated my curly hair with an easter wreath. Nothing much, but daring in a pub where almost everybody was from Cologne. When they saw me, the DJs changed the music from Cologne carneval songs (which everybody knows by heart and sings with all the feeling he can put into them) to "Altbier macht blöd" (you'll become stupid by drinking Düsseldorf beer). Sigh.
Anyway, my collegue Doris and I had lots of fun, and if you happened to watch tv last night, Pro 7, you might have seen us. Singing and dancing and laughing.
More news on carneval this year? Have a look here. Listen to the music and sing along! Alaaf!