Last Friday was Walpurgis night, but in Uppsala they don't just celebrate at night. Nope, they start off the morning at 9am with a big champagne breakfast.
Here's my Uppsala pal Othrex with his champagne, waiting for the others so we could walk to the river and watch...
people on homemade crazy looking floats with impending doom slowly approaching at the rapids!
We didn't see that though because we relocated to the park that must have been filled to the brim with 6,000 students drinking the day away in the PERFECT weather provided by the Walpurgis Gods.
My snacks!
There were so many people in the park it was impossible for people to find each other. We used my scarf tied around the tree as a landmark so we can show others, and ourselves, the way to our picnic spot.
I also got to wait in line for 30 minutes for the port-a-potty while doing a gotta pee dance.
Later we went to a reggae party.
There we amazingly found my language kompis Sergio totally randomly.
Phones didn't work all day because there were so many people using them.
People were in a really good mood there.
Swinging their bodies and dreadlocks to the beat...
Wow! In one picture, 3 white people with dreads! What if I had done a panorama?!
A guy jams out on his saxophone along with the tunes from the record player.
Meanwhile, I'm collecting money, aka cans!
All in all I collected about 80 cans and earned myself 40 crowns.
Photo cred to Othrex!
Thumbs up for Walpurgis!
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