Just for the record (since this is part of what In Soul is about!), we got snow 2 days after Christmas. We didn't have it at Kinderdijk this year but we did at least get it...something that doesn't happen every year in our neck of the world. I was ecstatic.
We woke up Saturday morning, December 27th, to this.
It fell down wet and gloppy, at 34-degrees F, the entire day.
On the left, I'm looking out our back balcony; on the right I'm standing at our front door
(1st floor up) looking into our senior-living courtyard.
(1st floor up) looking into our senior-living courtyard.
This gives you a feel for the "wet and gloppy."
How's that for ending an old year!
full of oliebollen and apple/pineapple beignets.
YUP, in time for Old Year's Eve, as the Dutch call it.
It's a Dutch thing to eat oliebollen and beignets the day before the New Year.
So we did...last evening and again today on this first day of 2015.
It only happens once a year, so eat up, Folks!
(We even got to bed and asleep by 1 a.m. after the fireworks toned down.)
HAPPY NEW YEAR again!
Loving the touch of including videos! Happy New Year...once again, ha ha!! xoxo
ReplyDeleteWhen I remember to take a video, Robin....HA! Thanks for your vote of confidence. I had to add this post just to make sure I included SNOW. It's almost all melted by now and we may not get any more, based on other years. Anyway, yes, Happy New Year, again. :)
DeleteHappy New Year indeed. The snow was a treat the first day, a danger the next day and gone now.
ReplyDeleteOudejaarsavond is not the same without 'Oliebollie'.......I am glad you like them.
Thank you for making this post as a nice remembrance. Time flies and it is hard to keep up.
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar MLS, IHVJ.
Sometimes it's important to include the "little" things because, in the end, they often are the biggest of them all. I'm so glad we get to share these many "gifts."
DeleteI really fancy those Oliebollie!
ReplyDeleteYou'd make a good Dutchman, then, Bill. :)
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