Eeek so behind, I doubt I will ever catch up on all this blogging. But I will try!
So… Sinterklaas!
We had Sinterklaas with my Uncle, Aunt and cousins, Jur, Marleen, Vince and Mick. It was a really lovely weekend.
Our first night we had homemade Pizza
Cooked in Jur and Marleen’s sexy new oven
Then we spent the rest of the evening just hanging out
And having lots of fun talking and joking around.
The Sinterklaas evening started out with us all working together making hapjes (nibbles) for dinner. Mick put on his Zwarte Pete hat and we got the party started!
Everyone had poems written for them by their gift givers
Lindsay and I had a poem written for us by Vince which included the most difficult words in the Dutch language. Thanks Vince! We opened the big box and inside were 2 pineapple cutters we had bought and left at their house for safe keeping!
Everyone got lots of presents
Lindsay and I were sent on a wild scavenger hunt through the house searching for clues, while Mick did the photographing for us.
Lindsay got a pair of oven mitts and there high fives all round as Jur got oven mitts too! 
Lindsay then wore the oven mitts for the rest of the night wearing them while he opened his beer.
while he unwrapped presents
and even while he ate speckulaas biscuits!
We were all really spoilt and had a really nice night
Sinterklaas delivers presents by leaving them at the door or in the garden. We were made aware of presents via sms. I decided I wanted to have a chat to Sinterklaas about making us walk into the freezing garden every hour. So I opened up the text messages from Sint and phoned him! Sadly he didn’t answer… but my cousin Mick’s voicemail kicked in… how strange 
The next day we held a party for Mick’s Birthday.
All the grandparents and some aunties and uncles came over.
In Holland its tradition for a birthday you set up all your furniture in a big circle
you serve all your guests coffee/tea and cake
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Sometimes there is not enough chairs for everyone and you need to double up
Mick and I had spent the whole morning making an apple crumble/tart combination. I wore my Dutch apron and he wore his Australian apron while we combined Australian apple crumble with dutch apple tart.
It went down a treat and there was none left by the end of the afternoon.
That night we played games until late
