Eliot's Travels

While waiting for Sinterklaas entourage, there were Piets everywhere entertaining the crowds of children. These two were motoring around in their little boat waving at the crowd. My favorites were the Piet was on a low-riding bike and one riding a box bike. After waiting about 30 minutes, the boats were nearly here. Magically, the rain stopped just minutes before Sinterklaas' boat Sint II came through. The police backed everyone behind the safety bars and the bridge lifted off our side of the canal.


Sinterklaas is here. As Gina promised, we were looking right down on Sinterklaas and his helpers. First the stoomboot with Sinterklaas passed by and then the huge sailing ship with 50 or more Pieten and a band playing Sinterklaasliedjes. Zie ginds komt de stoomboot ... The Pieten were all waving their arms and legs and singing songs. A police officer was right in my way for getting a nice video of the Pieten boat (I did get a short one). Clearly this was the party barge! It was very exciting.

posted by Whitney @ 10:37 AM