Okay so some of you may be like what the heck, well Jason's family is from Holland and mine from Germany and so there is a celebration of St. Nicholas there. Well the Dutch stole our holiday... Sinterklaas is the celebration of St. Nikolaus and I guess how it goes is he comes on a boat on the 5th with Black Piet and that night if you have been good you put out your shoes and St. Nikolaus will fill your shoes with goodies. If you have been bad Jason says that Black Piet puts you in a bag and beats you. Graphic much! Because this tradition is much more affluent in his family, we got to go to Salt Lake today to his Oma's Sinterklaas party, we didn't win any of the cash prizes but it was still fun to see family and spend some time with all of the cousins (who I am trying to still master their names). Last year in my apartment I told my friends about St. Nikolaus and Jackie and I learned about it in German so we decided to "have him come" and so today since Jason and I's Christmas activity was a craft we made little stockings out of paper and filled them with candy for our friends and went and helped Sinterklaas out with his deliveries for the night! While we were gone he came and left us a small treat! (thanks Mama Wouden for sending those home with us!)
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