Another Fasching Season (",)

Salam...

This is actually a last Saturday's story, before it gets rotten, I better bring myself to write about this because... 

you know... 

For future reminiscence... (",)

This is something special, which we'll never have in Malaysia, it's a celebration or a carnival season in Germany known as Fasching.

It's a time of festivity and merry making, there's parades, dancing in the streets, people from all ages wearing costumes, you'll get to see so many types of costumes!

It's fun, and the atmosphere were filled with vibrance and merriment!! 

So, there was a Parade held in Mainz last Saturday, so off we went..

It was about 1 and a half hours journey by trains, and the kids were well equipped with entertainment to avoid boredom hehe..

As we were nearing Mainz, the atmosphere inside the train changed tremendously, as more and more people entered the train with costumes, they sang a song, cheered and the air was filled with vibrance!!

And once we've reached Mainz, wow!! We saw more and more people with all kinds of costumes!

Everywhere!

The parade was due to begin at 2.15pm, and we've decided to have our lunch first in a Restaurant which Hubby had searched online. But, while we were on our way to that Restaurant, we've passed by another Restaurant which looked presentable, comfortable, so I told hubby, let's just have our Lunch here.. and hubby insisted on finding the one he had found on the internet..
mmmmmm camtu lah hubby, if he has decided on something, it's very hard to change his mind ^_^

I had to agree though I felt a lil bit dissatisfied hehehe...

So, we finally reached the Restaurant, it was small, not as comfortable looking as the previous one, and it was a lil bit crowded too...

And we had to wait longer for our food and the Parade was going to start soon.. and the previous Restaurant was a little vacant compared to this.. 

And perhaps if we had gone to that Restaurant, we would have enough time to eat, to watch the parade, to find the Mosque for Zuhur and Asar prayer...

So I began expressing my dissatisfaction at hubby's choice hehehe...

But, I shouldn't feel dissatisfied for anything, just make doa for whatever decision we were going to make, let Allah guide us so that we make the best decision even in a small small matter like deciding where to eat.. do you agree?

Yes, there's hidden 'hikmah' for everything that happens, either you see it straight away or you have to wait for a while to see it, or wait longer but eventually you'll see the 'hikmah' and reasons behind it...

So, even though it seemed like a wrong decision, fortunately enough the Parade starting point was just a few steps away, just opposite the Restaurant, we could even watched it from the glass door of the Restaurant. So while waiting for the food, I took Afeef and Fatini outside to watch the parade and collect candies, while Hubby and Aleena stayed inside the Restaurant, and wait for the food.

And later, the Restaurant workers told us that we could perform Solat in their store room which they themselves used as a prayer room.

There were 'sejadah' ready and all...

So sweet... masa solat rasa nak nangis...

You know, I regretted complaining earlier....

How God has made things easy for us, and all we did was find faults.. huhu

My point is, don't complain, don't argue because Allah certainly has plans for us in every single thing we do.. So Trust.. (",)

So..... These were some pictures I took during the Parade....

Paling cute (",) 

Yang berstroller, yang kecik molek, semua ada hehe...

But, the part I enjoyed most was.....

........Watching the bystander..... hehehe

It's cute to watch the whole family dressed in costumes... right?

 (",)

Afeef and Fatini had a great time collecting candies..

Our Lunch... (",)

Hasil Kutipan hehehe...

Banyak buang aje sebab tak halal..

One beautiful view I managed to capture in Mainz (",)

After the Parade, we went to a nearby some sort of a Fun-fare held in conjunction with Fasching season. 

The kids watched the sky-fliers in awe heheh..

Serious scary benda ni huhu..

On the way home, I captured a unique tree plastered against the wall of a building. 

And Aleena with her little teddy, always carry that teddy anywhere she goes, cute kan (",)

Nowadays we rarely bring a stroller along, just to train her, and it worked out well... only hubby had to carry her once in a while, it's ok.... hubby kan nak build muscles hehehe!

On the way home...

 We reached home about 9.00 pm kot, had our dinner and dropped by at the store, but still the kids were all energetics! 

And... 

I felt new all day, I was wearing one of the most beautiful shawl, even more beautiful because it's a gift from a wonderful friend recently (",)

And lastly, Afeef's school celebrated Fasching last Friday, which he wore a Police costume, (I forgot to take a photo of him) and Fatini's kindergarten celebrated it last Monday, and she had on her Rapunzel costume!!

Our last Fasching.... insyaAllah...

(",)