Pictured with my friend, Martina (to my left), who is dressed as a mythical lake creature known as a vodník in celebration of the fisherman's holiday.
On the way to Bezdrev Rybnik...(running because we are late...it was a loooong walk!!!
See the freshly caught carp (kapr) sliding to their ultimate demise, bound to be slaughtered in front of our local grocery store, blood coagulating on the threshold of the electronic sliding doors, battered and fried to a crispy golden brown for our gastronnomical enjoyment and culmination of holiday celebratory tidings!
Notice this booth girl, sporting cheese products from all over South Bohemia, boasts an apron proclaiming her "cheesiness". I'd say she's the winner!!
Rybařská Slavnost u Bezdrevu, na Hlubokou...
Fisherman's Celebration at Bezdrev Lake in Hluboká
Every year on the 28th of October, which is a national holiday celebrating Czechoslovakia's independence, the fishermen (who are state employees and have cool uniforms) drain the lakes and gather in large trucks all the carp, which is a bottom-feeding fish highly revered here. This is an opportunity to have a fair complete with fried foods (people walk around munching on whole fried carp) and mini-donuts!!! YAY mini-donuts!!! There are booths hawking hand-made wares and lots and lots of beer! We went for the first time this year as Roxie had a choir concert. She was so excited and she sang really well. She had been practicing every day for this. After the children from the school choir sang there was a cool polka band. Something about the fish being loaded onto trucks, beer-soaked fishermen, whole fried carp and polka made me feel like I was in a different country. Rebekah elected to hip-hop dance in front of the polka band thus irritating the polka singers. I was many meters away pretending to have no children.
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LOL, ya Bekah! Hope you guys had fun eating bottom feeders!
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