I attended two Queen's day celebrations in the San Francisco Bay Area this week. There are tradtitionally three events Dutch people here can go to: 1) An adult party in a club in San Francisco hosted by the fabulous DJ Marcus 2) A kids/family event hosted by Juf Miriam who runs the regional Dutch school 3) A formal event hosted by the consulate with herring and jenever. I went to events 1 & 2, No. 3 is on Wednesday and I'll have to miss it.
The SF party was a blast, with Dutch music, loads of people wearing orange and Grolsch from a traditional bottle. The family event was fun too, I was amazed by the number of Dutch kids in the area. Juf Miriam told me there are now 60 kids enrolled in her classes and the party attracted about 300 people. Wow, that's different from the somewhat anemic turn our two years ago. Great job Miriam!
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Dear Ramblings of a Dutch :)
Thank you for the compliment and I would like to announce this years Koniginnedag Feest/ Queensday Party! :
DJ Marcus
The craziest Dutch Celebration of the year is here. It is the 7th celebration in San Francisco and this time around it is brought you by DJ Marcus from Holland, Eurocircle, NLBorrels, & The Dutch Consulate General. There will be more food, drinks, music, decorations, and more people dressed in Orange!
If you have never experienced a Queensday in the Netherlands this your opportunity to experience the best celebrated party in honour of our Royal Family just to drink and party Dutch style!
There will be no boring moments just pure fun, this and the World Cup Soccer is the only time when Dutch People really dress in Orange and partly like brethern in arms!
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