Pancakes and Dutch Carols.

So if you aren’t home for the holidays you might as well do something totally out of the ordinary like have a Dutch pancake feast on Christmas Eve! Pancakes are one of their things around here so we stopped by Pannekoecke Backer van Dam which is a pancake house right downtown Leiden There were soooo many different kinds of pancakes it is overwhelming and they aren’t all the expected sweet ones; They also do savory ones like how not all crepes are sweet. You should have seen the size of these things! HUGE! Brittany, Joelle, Adrienne, and I all shared the Maycoft, the house specialty which had cheese, onion, mushrooms, peppers, and tomatoes on top and also one with chicken and fruits which was very different. We wanted to get a sweet one as well but didn’t have time because we were trying to make church.

We attended the Christmas Eve service at Peter’s Church. I never go to church so when I told Neana about this she thought I was pretty crazy. I found it quite interesting though. It was naturally all in Dutch which was amusing but also made me lose interest seeing as I couldn’t understand the priest. He was a very animated speaker and used lots of hand gesture but I still had no idea what he spoke of. I did get the chance to belt out some Christmas Carols in Dutch though. Mauricio and I were enjoying was too much singing along with the lyrics they past out. We sang “Silent Night” and “Come all ye Faithful” The last song they sang we sucked at though. I didn’t recognize the tune so that was part of the problem. It seemed so long of a service but I think it was just because I don’t know Dutch.