Strange visitor

It’s Sneekweek in Sneek (a small place in Friesland in the Netherlands). It’s when whole Sneek is partying for a week and when sailboats of all kinds are sailing through this city/village. Not that the boats are just cruising through the channels, because they make a spectacular show of it with flying man (not really of course, it’s something they did with water so they could keep the humans in the air) and beautiful fireworks, which we had a first rang view off a balcony. And I can tell you that it was the most beautiful fireworks I have ever seen, it gave me a somewhat magical feeling.

I came there together with my parents, who went for nostalgic reasons, they both grew up here and spent almost every year at this event. I on the other hand went because I was curious and of course the yummy treats (such as oliebollen, suikerbrood bread with sucker), because we spent our nights at my grandmothers as she lives there nearby. Of course also to spend some time with her.

In the morning we had a strange visitor, who was very drunk and a bit rude (using our classes without really asking to pour himself a glass of berenburg cola, a strong alcoholic drink, and smoking in a no-smoke building and bothering elderly). He said he came after a night of partying while losing his friend to visit his grandparents, a few moments later we found out he had no grandparents in this building. Also, he had a very sad story about how his friend left him and he could not get home, because he had no money and he came with his friend's car and he wasn’t living nearby. But when my dad, after a while and when a lot of complaining about this guy, left him out, he left by bicycle (which he said he had not with him). Why he came to this building and how, we are not sure.

Even though we had this strange drunk visitor (which is leaving as with a good story to tell) we had a good weekend where we had lots of fun. Have any of you done anything this weekend you enjoyed?