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I hope everyone has a nice pakjesavond tonight, although I suspect most people celebrated over the weekend. Still, today is the official celebration, so stock up on pepernoten, truffel kruidnoten and chocolate letters while they’re still available! I hope Sinterklaas is good to you. Pippo suspects he’ll end up in a sack and sent to Spain before the night is through. He figures he must have been bad to deserve this kind of embarrassment.
A Flamingo in Utrecht
My former life in the Netherlands
A Flamingo in Utrecht 
is this a Zwarte Dog of Dog Piet? Nice photo 🙂
Truly one of the great questions of our time. 😉
I think he looks quite cool 🙂
I’m just amazed the hat was able to contain his ears!
He is altogether charming —
but perhaps from his point of view……?????
He’s fortunate that I only do stuff like this to him once a year or so. I’m pretty sure his daily lifestyle more than makes up for a few moments of embarrassment. 😉
Lol!! Too funny! I hope Sinterklaas will bring sth really nice to Pippo to compensate for the photo shoot…
Sinterklaas skipped all of us this year, but hopefully Santa will be more generous. 😉
We had a Sint (a real one) arrive at our house a day early on Sunday (yes It was easier that he came on the weekend) and to the surprise and delight of a Spanish speaking guest, Sint started talking to her in very fluent Spanish!
He then switched to English for our German and Canadian guests and back to Dutch for the rest of us.
He and the Piets had and excellent sense of humour and the smaller family members stood in awe and wonder.
Pepernoten… Oh yes a perennial favourite (the amount of offer each year seemingly increases but strangely enough no matter how much is bought there are NEVER any leftovers!)
That’s Pippo Piet in the photo of course… seriously cool!!!!
How fun to have a real Sint! Especially such a multilingual one to make the visit special for everyone.
Cool Cat. Except he’s a dog, haha. (I can’t say Hot Dog because that would be my dachshund.) 🙂
He likes to think he’s a cool cat, but he tends to be a bit more goofy. 😉
Nice !
After pakjes Piet and painter Piet and bouwer Piet and zanger Piet… waarom niet hondje Piet ?
Inderdaad! Hondje Piet! 🙂
There’s the famous Pippo! How cute! 🙂
Unfortunately, you can’t see the ears, which were part of the reason we chose the name, although in our Pippo’s case, they stand up, rather than droop.