Here is the next part, we will see the local arrival, in both Playmo and pics I made last week
First is the arrival, this is usually done with a small boat.
Often the mayor of the city is present to invite the Sint to the city! Here you see him giving a small interview to the reporter from a local TV station. The Mayor is of course always very honored to be able to welcome the Sint personally!
While people are waiting for the arrival, there is usually a podium and a big band. The big band plays Sinterklaas songs while kids are invited on stage for all sorts of fun. Here you see some kids (imagine they have painted black faces and wearing Zwarte Pieten clothes) doing a little dance.
There are always many people that show up to be part of the arrival of the Sint.
The kids specifically like it a lot as it means lots of Pepernoten that the Zwarte Pieten hand out!! You can also see the Mayor welcoming the Sint in the Playmo-picture.
Here you can see one of the most important tasks of Sinterklaas during this day. Interacting with the kids, shaking hands, receiving drawings and so on!
The Zwarte Pieten often join in on the fun happening on the stage, dancing, singing and in general acting silly!
Of course the Sint is also welcomed by the reporter and gives a small interview mainly about the trip and how happy he is to finally be in place XXX
The Sint will then make his appearance on the podium and interact some more with some kids, often having them sing songs and asking some nice questions. Of course the big band will happily join in with those songs so the crowd can sing to their hearts content!
And finally he gets on Amerigo, his trusty white horse and rides around greeting more people in the city!
Finally here is a picture of our local news paper, I am in the left circle and my kids are both (although you can hardly see my daughter) in the other one!
Next update hopefully tomorrow!!
PS making this was a lot of fun as this was the first shoot I did together with my wife. The kids also joined in earlier but had some trouble with keeping all the klickies upright (domiNOOOOOOO!!!) so we finished up after they went to bed!
