Editing CS Newsletter for the Netherlands 2010.1 (section)

===Sinterklaas Pastry Extravaganza!===
Part of the Sinterklaas Event in the last weekend of November was the [http://www.couchsurfing.org/meetings.html?mid=50714 Sinterklaas Pastry Extravaganza!]

For this meeting 21 people signed up but at the day itself about 10 people showed up. So did [http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/wizzardofoss/ the Wizzard of Oss] (the writer of this article).

As we arrived the host of this event, [http://www.couchsurfing.org/profile.html?id=1YA2FUP Maartje], already had some tea ready.
The forecast told that it would be raining a lot that day so everybody was happy to be at this workshop not having to do sightseeing in the rain. After finishing the tea we all went to work.

We made 'pepernoten'. They are good for getting [http://picasaweb.google.com/lourenssenm/2009CSSinterklaasMeetingRotterdam#5409590869192774994 dirty hands] and a good view on the recipe.

In the end many things were made, like [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruidnoten kruidnoten]. Also many decorations were made with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marzipan marzipan].

In the end after all our work we managed to prepare:
[http://picasaweb.google.com/lourenssenm/2009CSSinterklaasMeetingRotterdam#5409592114868791538 pepernoten and cookies]; 
[http://picasaweb.google.com/lourenssenm/2009CSSinterklaasMeetingRotterdam#5409592348657724402 the horse of Sinterklaas that was very tired]; 
[http://picasaweb.google.com/lourenssenm/2009CSSinterklaasMeetingRotterdam#5409593014472790642 a flag (guess from wich country)]; 
[http://picasaweb.google.com/lourenssenm/2009CSSinterklaasMeetingRotterdam#5409593149510617506 meat (and a present vegetarian meat;-))] and 
[http://picasaweb.google.com/lourenssenm/2009CSSinterklaasMeetingRotterdam#5409593329163313042 fresh big pepernoten].
[http://www.couchsurfing.org/profile.html?id=43L1EXA Linda] liked to color her [http://picasaweb.google.com/lourenssenm/2009CSSinterklaasMeetingRotterdam#5409594099720538930 fingers].
[http://picasaweb.google.com/lourenssenm/2009CSSinterklaasMeetingRotterdam#5409594680871282306 A bored Couchsurfer with die sick dogs of the host] Maybe someone was killed there.
But when they saw [http://picasaweb.google.com/lourenssenm/2009CSSinterklaasMeetingRotterdam#5409594545561912610 this pepernoot] everybody was happy again.

Everybody liked the baking extravaganza and because the group was small it was a very cosy meeting.