Räbechilbi turnip parade

 

This is S writing again! During the turnip festival in Richterswil the town is a turnip city. Every house is town is covered in lit up jack-o-lantern turnips and so is every stand and store. Mama and I went there to see it. In the parade there are a bunch of giant posters covered in lit turnips on wagons pulled by people. There were also cute little kids in kindergarten or so carrying turnips in baskets or on boards they carried on their shoulders. There were several different turnip floats and a lot of turnip carriers. There were a few bands who had the music stands on their instruments lit up. The bands had a lot of drummers. Sometimes the drummers were the only ones playing. 

I really liked the turnips hanging on hoops.

It doesn't look like some of the turnips were lit up, but everything was. We had some problems taking pictures in the dark which is why everything is either unlit looking or blurry. 

Here are some floats which we took better pictures of.

Here is a side picture of one of the floats so you can see how the turnips are attached. 

This float was one of our favorites. Each section spun to give different faces.

This helicopter was the grand finale float. There were crash dummies sitting in front. The rotors on the helicopter even spun and made noises.

After the parade we walked around town a little bit to see the turnip decorated houses. 

There were about a million turnips on each house!

Trees and turnips, both orange.

We liked the way the turnips reflected in the windows.