Heaven indeed opened up and the wind blew without respite but they were not reasons enough to deter my 3-year old girl and the other kids in the neighborhood from celebrating the feast of Saint Martin (Sint Maarten) which they had already anticipated for weeks. This feast means that children with their lanterns go from house to house singing St. Martin's songs and in return, they will be rewarded with candies which they put in their little bags.
We arranged to meet up with our neighbors at 6:45pm and we barely able to make it to the appointed time as Siefko had to come from The Hague and me from Amsterdam, meeting up in Amersfoort and rushing to the creche in Nieuwland to pick up Francesca.
Francesca enjoyed the whole St. Martin's adventure with the other kids. Though she didn't know all the songs by heart yet, she tried her best to sing just the same.
By the time we were done with visiting the neighbors, the battery-powered paper lanterns were just irretrievably broken from the rain and wind. I felt so sorry for the little ones who wanted to keep their lanterns in pristine condition, hoping that they can go again for St. Martin's adventure on a nightly basis ;-)
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