A few weekends ago, we enjoyed the third largest Karneval in the world here in Rijeka. I don't want to upset anyone, Croatia's Karneval was nice, but it didn't seem to be very large and probably not the third largest (just smaller than Rio and Venice). It was fun to watch all the groups and great creativity in costumes and vehicles.

Two of my teammates, Alexis and Taylor, and a few friends were in the parade. All in all, it was the best Karneval I have ever seen and almost worth the 2.5 hours I stood there to watch half of it!

Below is a few pics from the parade.











People as dinner above, some statement of frustration to the right (this is not offensive, because it's not me making the gesture), and caged children-monkeys below.











Our buddy, Dario, right in the yellow as Bluto, the arch-villain of Popeye.
















Crazy spacemen above and vampires to the right

Alexis, Iva, and Taylor in the parade as "A je to" (some weird Czech cartoon)

Crazy nights in Rijeka include men in skirts, verbal attacks against the US government, and shady bars!

Last night, John and I attended a viewing of a conspiracy film with a mutual friend. To view a composition of the evening, check out John's recent post

I agree that it was very interesting and somewhat disturbing if even partly true. I did enjoy parts of it. One of my favorite points in the film was some sound-bites from the Republication National Convention in 2004 prior to President Bush's re-election. They were talking a lot about terrorism and 9/11. The sound-bites were only of the words terrorist, terrorism, 9/11, tyranny, and other words as such. It was quite amusing how many times they were said by some of the individuals.

So, in all, it was quite interesting and lead to some great conversation where I had to bite my tongue multiple times to not scream that I am not a US government sheep and follow my leaders without question.

As pertaining to my previous blog, I have been struggling in my mind about how the word "monotonously" really looks super monotonous. I think it's all the o's. I just kind of yawn when I look at it. Sorry for boring all of you just by using it.

The Mysteries of Signs - part 3


What?!! Are there excited and loud sentences ahead in the road; jumping around and laughing at the passing cars? Or is there a lack of exclaiming happening ahead with people and cars talking monotonously; walking/driving around downtrodden and disheveled? Mmmm, the possibilities! I would say that I don't have a lack of exclaiming in my life. I would say that I am worried for the island of Krk as this sign is on the bridge to their island. Those poor people... either they are being taunted by sentences or their cars are in a deep depression.

The start of my website has begun...

I have been know to talk about my favorite website "Stuff on my Cat" to a variety of people in a variety of situations. But even better than that, I have also been know to complain that there isn't an even greater website available called "Stuff on a Stray Cat". I actually have even blogged about it *here*.

But thanks to my friend Ryan's girlfriend, Liz, I now have my first products for the website. These pictures were not created by cruel humans, but just by mother nature herself.

I am so glad that God has a humor and allows things like this to happen. Apparently the cat didn't really mind the bag on its head. maybe someone much smarter and beautifuler than me will steal my idea and get this amazing thing going. One can only hope!

If these animals were small enough I would stick them in my pocket...

I really like monkeys and camels now. I've never had any previous experience with these animals before my latest trip to Gibraltar and Morocco. I've always been a fan of animals except miniature dogs, which I would like to punt off bridges as an occupation. Monkeys are now included in my top five favorite animals. I don't know many things that are as willing to jump up on my back and try to eat my hat. Some of you might be wondering if I have had experience with other animals doing this. I have actually... one of my roommate Johns' favorite activities is to jump on my back and try eating my hats. Believe me, having a monkey on your back is much nicer than having a John of any size there.