rest when the season ends on Ash Wednesday.

Sometimes more, sometimes less subtly, many Carnival shows in the region also take aim at the new US president. The highly popular "Stunksitzung" show in Cologne that runs almost nightly for weeks on end shot Trump to the moon this season with the words: "Get lost, you won't be missed."

Cowboys should leave the toy guns at home

No doubt anyone out for Carnival this year will spot revelers with Trump wigs.

The number one seller for women this year, however, is dressing up as a doe or a unicorn, while men prefer American football gear.

If all the Trump wigs are sold out, how about a steampunk outfit instead?

Steampunk outfits are popular with both men and women, too, as are Pierrot mime clowns inthe vampires. Allison is a survivor, and as a human, she fought every day of her life to live to see sunlight. As a vampire, she fights, kills, runs, hides, lies her way to see another night. Allison is an easy character to like. She is loyal, almost to a fault, and her quit wit and no-nonsense attitude won me over time and time again.

After she leaves the city, on the run really, and heads towards the Fringe, things get a little complicated when she runs into a band of humans who are in search of Eden. Yes, that Eden. She decides to roll the dice and travel with the group even though she is terrified of making another mistake....letting her hunger get the best of her. This