More Surprises

Steve got a Pokemon ball (made by Robin)
Robin got an electric keyboard (made by Bri)
Chris got a portrait of himself - complete with iPod headphones that cone out (made by me, Andrew).
Before that we'd had a nice dinner together at our place - on a dreary winterish evening.
Changeable weather ver the weekend - where I took part in Robin & Chris's swimming club Njord's club swim champs on Sat afternoon and Sun morning
2 x thirds (of a field of 4) in the 50M back and freestyle. Hopeless in the 50m breaststroke. Maybe room for a New Years resolution to improve my breaststroke then (never had it taught at school for some reason).

Sinterklass Surpises

This year we decided to do a traditional Sinterklaas tradition of making "Surprises" for each other. In Dutch you pronounce it "surpreeze" . Basically the idea was we all had the same budget to buy a present. Then we drew lots to see who we got to buy for - then you go out a buy the gift for them - and you make a novelty package to put the gift inside - and that is the surprise. You do not know up front who is buying your present for you. Below is my one - a Kiwi on a block of Dutch cheese mode by Steven (with a bit of help from Mum)
Anton and El got a book (full of sweets and puzzel books) from us all.
Bri got a lipstick (made by Chris)