After a couple days of break from Karneval, we figured we had to really fire it up for the last night, also known as Nubelfebron, or The Burning of the Nubel. As Meagan touched on, the Nubel is basically a symbolic character that you can blame for all of your sins, especially those sins committed during Karneval; you can say, “It wasn’t me, the Nubel made me do it!” and you start clean the following morning which is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I (Aaron) experienced only this night of Karneval in 2010 and it was a hell of a time, so I was excited that our plan was to go back to the same place as last year, Heller’s. Normally, each bar has their own Nubel and their own weak ceremony, but in one
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