At the week-end we had the sinterklaas celebration - 'Sinterklaas Feest' with Rik's family. Actually it was rather like our Christmas with opening presents however each family does it a bit differently. What happens usually is that the names of all family members are put in a hat and then a name is picked by each person and then you buy a present for that person but also you must write a poem as well for that person and the poem is written as if from Sinterklaas. We did it a bit differently for our family as it was my first time and we just bought presents for everyone and did a poem if we wanted to however Rik wrote a poem for me which was great and I will wrote it here so you can see the kind of thing people write- you will see from the poem that Rik doesn't like Santa at all!
" Sinterklaas that's me,
heard you have been talking about me!
You find my birthday quite confusing,
and also a little amusing,
all these things people do in honour of me...
Yes, I'm quite popular around her you see!
I have to warn you, one guy imitates me,
he really thinks he is the bees knees!
I tell you now, he's all fake,
as bad and sickly as St Stephen's church cake.
You know I'm talking about Santa Claus.
beware of him, don't let him get close!
You've been looking for a house,
yourself and your lovely spouse.
Iheard you were really shocked,
when the door of one flat was unlocked,
to see a bathroom so small,
that the shower on the wall,
was right above the toilet seat,
my goodness, that isn't very neat!
my goodness, that isn't very neat!
I hope you find a nice place soon,
I know you will be over the moon!
To give the place a nice atmosphere,
I got you a little present here.
To remember you are a bright light
as this gift, to light at night!"
Yes we really did see a bathroom that small in one of the flats we were viewing!
Here are some pictures above from the day we had together and some other random ones about the place. Then after this post I will shut up about sinterklaas as I'm sure you've had enough of me rambling on about it!
5 comments:
Great pictures Ruth. Was the house decorated? I noticed that - was it a balloon? - hanging. It looked like a good day in spite of Rik's poetry ;)
No the house isn't decorated usually, they do that for Christmas like us. They do decorate the shops though for Sinterklaas day and that thing hanging was actually in a shopping centre- the little puppet black Pete's are hanging and climbing everywhere.
Do you know when you might be around at Christmas? Really looking forward to seeing you x
We are arriving in England on the 21st and leaving on the 31st. Yes really looking forward to see you too! What day are you coming to Nottingham? I hear you are going to London boxing day for a musical?- how exciting!
Happy Christmas Ruth & Rik, We hope you're having a really lovely celebration together! With love from all of us downunda,
Sophie, Thierry, Amelie and Carys
xxxx
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