Evan, Warren and I took the train up early Tuesday evening, armed with beer, red bull, vodka, face paint, glitter, tinfoil, tape and various secondhand robot costume leftovers (found at Ziegelhau). We didn't know exactly what we wanted to do for a costume, but after a bit of discussion somehow settled on roboty-aliens with a shape theme . I was circle, Evan was square and Warren was triangle. Together, we were the unstopable geometrons! (wtf...yes, we may have already been drunk at this point) We made quite a scene at the Luzern train station taping tinfoil to each other.
Geometrons ...unite!
We somehow got talking to some 15ish year old swiss boys, who were even drunker than we were. They had some sort of rap group, and gave us a demo while Evan beat boxed for them. It was a randomly strange and amusing encounter, lol.
Us with our new swiss rapper friends
Around 10:30 we met up with Travis and Devon who had taken a later train. We wanted to incorporate them into our robot tin foil theme, but couldn't be bothered to spend much more time on costumes so ended up just wrapping them with the remaining tin foil. Devon also got to wear the robot head.
Part of the tin foil squad (Warren, Travis and Devon). Hooray for budget costume making!
We headed out into the streets where everything was very much underway. Everywhere we turned there was a different marching bands playing, all with themed costumes and oversized paper mache heads.
We found a cool rhythm band that was playing some awesome stuff, and joined in the crowd dancing wildly to the music. Needless to say, our fragile tin foil costumes didn't survive that long...oh well, they were fun while they lasted.
Band with a dart hat theme...this was just one of many cool band themes we saw.
Me dancing up a storm
Evan, Warren and me, sans foil...
We spent the whole night wandering from band to band, dancing as hard as we could. The hting I really loved about the marching bands was how into the music all the musicians were, just having a great time. Really together too...often it seemed like somebody would just start playing a song, and everybody would just start joining in. Might have just been rehersed like that though...either way, pretty cool. There was also various floats that had speakers blaring more dance/trance music, which was a nice interlude between the marching bands.
Discoy "float"
Haha, best costume ever
Some guy randomly gave us a bunch of sausages. It was the sketchiest thing ever, but everyone was so hungry that they didn't care. Nobody died, so that was good.
Stairs area which was one of the better spots to watch bands. These guys were really good, and the conductor was so into everything, it was awesome.We went hard until about 3:45am, and then headed back to the train station. We caught the 4:10 train back to Zurich, and I opted for heading straight to work. It was a tired day, but I actually ended up banking hours since I stuck it out until regular leaving time, woot.
To summerize, Swiss people know how to party, they just happen to save it all up for this annual event.
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Is it just me, or is your tongue sticking out in about 71.8% of the pictures? Bi-product of the drinking I guess?
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