Knabenschiessen

On Saturday my aunt took me, my grandma, and my cousin Lara to "Tag der öffnen Tür" at a music hall, which means "day of the open door", which is basically a fancy way of saying that you could go listen to the orchestra practice for free because there was a new conductor. The music was very good, but what I found more interesting was the hall that we were in. The whole giant building was decorated in the same fashion:)

On Saturday night Lara and I went to the "Knabenschiessen" (literally translated means boy-shooting) which is a giant fair that comes every year that originally was a shooting contest for young boys. I don't know how old the tradition of the Knabenschiessen is, but I'm guessing it's relatively old. The whole fair thing is a newer part, along with the fact that even though it's still called boy-shooting, girls can participate as well. It was super fun. 

The shooting part didn't go so well, I learned that I'm not good at shooting while lying down... Oops. 

The fair part, however, was awesome. Except for the giant crowd, really really loud music, and cigarette smoke so thick it was illuminated by the light from the rides. I'm making it sound like it was horrible by saying that, but somehow it was still really really fun...? I don't know. 

(In this picture you can see the smoke and dirt better)

We went on lots of rides and ate yummy foods. (Did you know cotton candy is called "Zucker-Watte" here? It means sugar-cotton)

 

Also, we got to go on the biggest operating Ferris wheel in all of Switzerland. It was epic. According to a sign, it had over 15,000 tiny lights all over it.