One of the "Up Sides" of city living is just wondering upon random events. There's stuff going on here ALL the time. There's no way to keep up with it all. So periodically, we'll be out and about and discover something. This was one such event. We had taken a family outing to the Zoo earlier that day and were headed back home. We'd gotten off the U-Bahn at Karlsplatz (our U-Bahn stop) and we began to see all these oddly dressed people in elaborate costumes - a lot of goth Princesses and guys dressed as Elves.
By the way, for you non-city dwellers... this is honestly not normal :P.
We decided to go investigate.
It turned out to be an Anime festival.
As we were wandering over to begin our investigation, William yells "Storm Troopers!" Sure enough, the Imperials had invaded and not only were the Troopers there, but Darth Vader himself! The boys were totally psyched. (Me too...) The costumes were super cool. And these weren't profiteers that wanted money to get your picture with them. They were just die hard fans thrilled to dress up. They seemed really thrilled at the boys excitement. They were the ones that came over to the kids. (Funny enough, there really weren't any other kids around the place!) And they were pushing other adults away (I was so grateful he didn't do a choke hold on anyone!) so the boys could get their picture with them. So, Darth Vader turned out to be not so evil after all.
As pleasant as the zoo was... I think this won!
How cool is this! We live in such a great city!
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