End of year festivities

On the other side of the world events are nicely spread around the year. Here we get it all at once; end of years functions, christmas events, holiday, picnics and BBQ's Yes I am immersed in it all and I give you some impressions of two events from last weekend.

On friday night we went with 12 staff from work to The Red Rose dinner theater. First we got to dine and than the show started. It was hosted by the leader Mrs Monica Middlesex, a dame Edna figure, who interacted with the public and of course made fun of them. The theater piece was called, "what's up my chimney" and the actors with a professional background in singing presented a wonderful show and there was a lot of laughing. My English wasn't good enough though to pick up everything.

On Saturday night I had to "work" and went with 5 children from the home to the annual free Christmas event "Coca Cola Christmas in the park" We left at 5.30 and when we arrived most of the park was already filled up. We found however a little empty spot on the right of the stage, with a good view.

The show which started at 7.30 pm was hosted by Simon Barnett and Gary Mc Cormick, both well known here from radio and TV. There were christmas songs and dance on stage while most people were sitting back on their rugs and chairs drinking and eating. After the break, when it was getting dark we got some popmusic like "twist and shout" so we tucked the rugs away and tried the twisting. It got closed off by Santa arriving this time on a boat ( He must have lost his sleigh and copied the dutch sinterklaas who always arrives by boat) and a spectacular firework.