Unfortunately the weather was too bad for the Sint to arrive by boat at the pier in Andel, as the note on the "welcome to Andel" sign said.. Instead the Sint would go straight to the "Buitenhof" where the gathering took place. A lot of Nils's friends were there as well so dad was left quickly with Wende (who was really tired because she did not want to go to bed for her nap..) There was music from the local band and it all felt (as we say in dutch) kneuterig. The kids were picking up the pepernoten the pieten threw in the air from the floor. Dad's pants pockets were filled up until no pepernoot fitted anymore. At home the loot was counted and stored in a safe place. Sunday we went swimming. We were a bit late but that meant that is was not so crowded. Ingmar loved it and Nils jumped in the deep end without his floating tubes. Wende was a bit convervative and stayed in the little pool playing with the toys. In the afternoon we watched a Sinterklaas movie and half way Liselotte, one of Nils's friends from school came over to ask if he wanted to play with her as she and her parents were visiting our neighbours Cor and Sandra. Before bedtime we danced and sang a popular Sinterklaas song called Pepernotenlied, really funny song!
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