Cloggies Blog!: November 2009

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Weekend no kids…

This weekend we had tickets for the Ilse deLange in concert so the kids stayed over at their grandparents! Of course we first had to see the arrival of St. Nicholas in Cothen… he arrived here yesterday morning. When we woke up it rained… when we drove to the village of the grandparents it was still cloudy but by the time we had our coffee the sky had turned blue and it was a beautiful morning to see St. Nicholas! We walked passed the local mill to the main street, had a chat at the butcher and bakery and by then the time had come, the first signs of St. Nicholas to arrive were here… the musical parade, the zwarte pieten… and then St. Nich!

After the parade we headed for the Community center and saw the show where MegaPiet (as a variation of MegaMindy) showed up to solve all the small problems! Mauro and Milan were small ‘Zwarte Pieten’ themselves, like many other kids.

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We had nice soup for lunch and then headed home…leaving the 2 kids there, they would go to the theatre later with Grandma to see a play about St. Nicholas.

First we headed to The Wall, the new Utrecht shopping area to buy our new Nespresso machine. I sold our Senseo Latte on Marktplaats because I wasn’t really fond on the coffee it made. We were ready to buy it at BCC because they always drop the price if you have proof of the lower price at a different store. But they didn’t have any left in stock so we moved up 3 stores to Saturn and bought our new Fire Engine Red coffee machine!! The improvement of our coffee is soooo good!! There’s even a milk steamer on the side for the Lattes and Cappuccinos’!

The guy who bought my Senseo Latte picked it up later in the afternoon and after a small dinner we headed for the Big Red Box, the nickname of our new theatre Vredenburg. We had tickets for the Ilse deLange concert. It was great but we had noticed that it looked as if she was in a hurry, did the repertoire but not really took the time to enjoy herself… this morning I saw on Twitter that she had another gig in Amsterdam later on… So our gig ended at 10.00 pm and we were home 20 mins later!!