Today was a full day.  In the morning, our family went to a birthday party.  Immediately following the party, we enjoyed our family's annual tradition of welcoming Sinterklaas to Amsterdam (though this time we watched the parade, with Sinterklaas astride his dappled horse -- instead of our more typical viewing of the boat voyage, with Sinterklaas aboard his steamboat).  After the Sinterklaas parade had passed us, I spent the rest of the afternoon at church (I also did the teaching today:  about Singleness).  And after church, I came home to enjoy a dinner with our home group (ten of our closest friends in the city).

There's plenty of material from such a day to blog about... but there's not so much energy to spend on blogging.  So I'll simply post a couple of pictures from the Sinterklaas parade (even though I got some great, colorful panoramas of the parade, some of my favorites were the close-ups) -- and then leave it at that.

It was a very full day.  But also a fulfilling day.