The Fun Fair...

We walked around the fun fair and the market booths. We came back that evening and rode the Ferris wheel.

We watched a band along the main canal, but didn’t manage to do any dancing.

Seeing Double and Other Interesting Sights...

The weather was perfect! There was a large group of identical twins ranging from little kids to very tall men.

 Loved this version of the Emperor’s New Clothes.

This float featuring transvestites was also very colorful.

Another Fun Parade in Leiden...

The Leiden Liberation Festival on October 3 happened to fall on a Saturday this year, so Jimmy was able to join me for the parade. The theme this year was The World Turned Upside Down, so it was fitting that it opened with a giant upside down globe.

This fellow had a very interesting contraption that allowed him to start upright on stilts and then flip over as he walked.

 These girls rolled along the route with occasional breaks.

 These groovy dudes traveled in style.

FILTH 100th...

That evening we hosted the FILTH’s 100th at our house as a Lunar Eclipse Hash and Slumber Party. We started the evening with a chili dinner and then played some Cards Against Humanity, which I’d never played before and was completely rubbish at. Eventually the eight of us who were spending the night took short naps and woke back up in the middle of the night to get a look at the eclipse. It was beautiful! Even Ashlynn agreed that it was definitely worth waking up for. Jimmy set up the telescope in the field next to the house. Technically we didn’t really have a trail, but we did a few down-downs, so figured that could count as an official hash. Veronica also got up in the middle of the night and managed to capture this excellent shot from Norwich.

Hashing Outside Schiphol...

Eventually, we headed outdoors where Opee and his co-hare Boar Whore even managed to find a small amount of woods to lead us into.

We also had another drink stop. This time the front runners had to figure out where the booze was hidden, which happened to be in a bag tied to a rope in the retention pond.

The end was next to a parking garage not far from the airport. I enjoyed being Religious Adviser at my largest hash yet and Opee enjoyed goofing around with Excremental Earnings.

We had snacks during the circle, then hopped on the train back to our place where we would be hosting the final event of the weekend.

It was really great that Melissa and Pieter could join us. They strangely remind us of our younger selves.

Not Your Average Pub Crawl...

The first clue sent us to the lockers. The playing cards then directed us to Starbucks, where we were given either apple juice or hot chocolate and instructed to go outside where our drinks were topped off with some cinnamon liqueur.

In addition to playing cards with letters, we found letters on the bottoms of our drinking cups.

Other stops included liqueur-filled Belgium chocolates...

...and fruit smoothies.

People really seemed to enjoy this treasure hunt pub crawl. 

FILTH 100th Weekend...

Opee hared a most unusual hash the following day. The trail started on the observation deck of Schiphol Airport and even included a small beer before the run.

Here he is explaining that this would be unlike any hash ever done before. Just in case you’re curious, the plane shown here is parked on the roof as a play area for kids.

We had pretty good turn out, including our friends from Frankfurt and some folks from Brussels.

Opee contemplated several different methods of laying trail inside the airport (such as putting stickers on garbage cans), but I kept nixing his ideas as I was worried he’d end up getting arrested after causing the airport to be evacuated. The ideas he finally settled on were brilliant! After placing our belongings in lockers, he gave us playing cards with letters that gave the clue of our next stop.

We found several fun places for photo ops as we criss-crossed the airport.