Our First Christmas Card

Today there was a Christmas card in our mail!
This card was made and send by Bob T. Bear (esq).
Isn't it cool!?

Thanks Bob!

Dice and Contagious Mail

There were two cool packages today!
The first was an invitation to a Game of the Year party and contained dice! I think you can never have too may dice.

The other package was wrapped in Sinterklaas wrapping paper and had a poem attached to it. The poem said this present was late because Black Pete had gotten ill when wrapping it.

Let's see what's inside.

Swine Flu?
Aaaaaaarghh!!!

Luckily it turned out to be friendly and fluffy Swine Flu.

The fluffy Swine Flu showed me what else was in the package: Wals met Bashir (Waltz with Bashir) a beautifully drawn graphic novel about the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

Thank you, Sinterklaas and Black Pete for these awesome presents!

And now that Sinterklaas has gone back to Spain it's time to decorate for Christmas!

Taai Taai and Presents

Yesterday afternoon I helped my owner bake Taai Taai.
It's a traditional treat for Sinterklaasavond just as Speculaas.

After eating lots of yummy food and Taai Taai and such it was time for unwrapping presents!

Just look at the cool things I got:

A zombie calendar for 2012.
Twelve months of zombies: isn't that cool!?

I also got a really big chocolate letter covered with walnuts and such.

And more zombies!
It's a zombie retelling of A Christmas Carol.

And last but certainly not least:
A really cool book about movies.

It was a really fun evening and I love all my presents.
Dank u Sinterklaasje!

Sinterklaas!!

Today it's Sinterklaasavond!
(St. Nicholas Eve)

Tonight Sinterklaas will bring us presents and we'll be celebrating Sinterklaasavond with lots of yummy food and by unwrapping the presents of course.

Here's some links for those unfamiliar with Sinterklaas:

Sinterklaas

De geschiedenis van Sinterklaas
This link is especially for Jeffe.
Jeffe: you will need a translator for this ;-)

Convention Time

Today I helped out promoting and selling games at a Multi Media convention. (I know board and card games aren't very Multi Media, but we were trying to show people that those games are just as fun as computer games.)

I got to try this weird electronic Rubik's cube thing.

I also played a game where you have to operate on a patient.
It was a fun game.

Lunch!

There was a train riding around the convention!
I really wanted to ride on the train, but we were to busy working to find time to catch the train.

All in all I had a fun day.

Why I Almost Fainted Today!

When my owner and me arrived at work today a co-worker told us Sinterklaas had visited our department. I was disappointed that I'd missed his visit, but our co-worker had made a photo of Sinterklaas to show us.

And Sinterklaas left us a present!
There was a poem attached to the present telling us our hard work is appriciated.

The present was speculaas with almond paste filling!

Yum!

After hearing all about Sinterklaas' visit, me and my owner started our work.

But then.......

Sinterklaas dropped by again!
It was a very grand moment for me to meet him! He even posed with me for a picture. I was very nervous and being held by Sinterklaas almost made me faint.

This is a moment I'll never forget!

An Early Sinterklaas Present

Sinterklaas brought me an early present yesterday!

It was a card game for two players.
Each player has to try to create a gang and the player who recruits the most gangsters wins the game.

Again I will say the tradional thanks to Sinterklaas:
Dank u Sinterklaasje!