What Sahara Said

Today was the Sinterklaas feast day, which is the celebration of Saint Nicholas' birthday. There was a great youtube I saw last year explaining it far better than I'll manage, but Di is adamant she didn't post it and numerous searches have turned up nothing, so I'll give it a shot anyway. Nikki's bound to correct me later if she's reading. It's not my fault you guys can't just do holidays normally like real countries. -_-

Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) comes from Spain (although it was originally Turkey, but wtf all the same) by steam boat with his horse(no reindeer) and his helper(originally his slave who punished bad children or put them in a sack to take back to Spain, but now just helps Sinterklaas hand out gifts) Zwarte Piet(black pete) in November, where they hang around the city for a week or two before leaving gifts for children who leave a shoe by the fireplace with a snack for his horse inside it on the morning of the 6th of December. Or something like that...

Santa Clause will still be visiting on the 25th here however. Luckily Christmas shopping for Sahara is the only kind of shopping I can stand doing.

Sahara has a nasty cold at the moment, so it was a bit of a slow start today. She got into my bed about 5am with a nasty cough and didn't really get back to sleep, but was also sick enough to completely forget about presents until Grandma stuck her head in around 8.30 quite insistent it was present time already. Grandama and Bompi got her, amongst other things, these cute "Plop socks" (Plop is a TV show here) with bells on them. They nicknamed her TinklePlop this morning, which she wasn't all that happy about.

We had a quiet morning watching her new DvD and making her My Little Pony jewelery kit (which she's wearing it in the photos). We went to Bompi's parents this afternoon for a few hours before coming home early. She was falling asleep in the car at only 4pm. They gave her a Mega Mindy night shirt(she's also wearing this in the photos), which I don't expect to see her changing until I drag her out of it when she's well enough to go back to school. If you're not familiar with Mega Mindy, she's a super hero on a kids show here who is a mild mannered police woman who changes into Mega Mindy with the help of her uncles invention whenever a case gets tough, and also Sahara's idol.