Wednesday, December 05, 2007

The Dutch Sinterklaas and Santa

The typical Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas was at the 5th of december.
(I even read that the Dutch introduced Santa with Sinterklaas in the USa some centuries ago. The Americans started to copy this tradition and it finally was reformed by Coca Cola into Santa, am i right?)
Anyway Dutch children receive gifts from the holy Spanish bishop at the 5th of december.
So Patrick, Robert and Maaike were very happy with the gifts.

Sinterklaas had made a mistake and sent the gifts to grandpa's place in stead of our house.

So, we quickly drove to his place where after some searching they found all the gifts and the unpacking could begin as you can see. Even Gosia got a small gift! So she must have been good this year ;-) The kids were looking for the gifts as you can see from this photo.











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