While none of our Swiss friends seem to know the real origin of this lantern parade, we've marched from the school around the neighbourhood for at least the last five years carrying little lit carved turnips! It's a child-focussed event (distinctly lacking alchohol!) and the Kindergarden kids spend time carving their lanterns at school with help from parents (Chris and I spent Friday morning at Kindergarten with the other parents) and their lanterns are displayed on a little wagon at the front of a large street procession which the children help to push. There are traditional songs too that Ili has been proudly singing for the last month at Kindergarten, and she was very active and helped push the wagon with others from her class most of the way round — clinging on in the crowd. Bea muscled in too and was pulling the wagon along with the teacher. Pictures not so great, but you get the idea. . .
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