Karneval in Samobor

Yesterday we took the family down to the Samborski fasnik which means the celebration of Karneval in Samobor (a little town near Zagreb). In Croatia (and most of Europe...I think) Karneval is a family holiday as opposed to a non-family friendly, adult event in New Orleans. The kids always dress up here and adults do sometimes as well. On Fat Tuesday, kids dress up in costumes and go around knocking on doors and people give out either 'krafne' which are basically donuts traditional around this time or they give kids money (something like $0.50). In Samobor they have 2 weeks worth of a festival and since it was a beautiful Saturday, we decided to dress the kids up and check it out. It's their custom to dress up in costume for this festival (and in general for other events around this holiday). We also wanted to take Lizzie to see one of her heroes, Fifi and the flower tots who were in concert. (Fifi is a popular cartoon character here). Lizzie thought that was pretty cool although she was just waking up from a nap so the pictures (below) don't show her true feelings. Anyway, here's some pics from the day. We had a great time.

Laura and the girls while enjoying traditional donuts called 'krafne'.

Lizzie went dressed up like a butterfly and was precious. Here she is getting a bird's eye view of the Fifi concert.

Here's Fifi and flower tots!

Bekah came dressed like a little flower. Cute, huh!

Here's Lizzie enjoying a krafna. Obviously she loved them.