13th Anniversary Celebration...

One month and five days late, we made our annual pilgrimage to La Lanterna in Scheveningen to celebrate the anniversary of our arrival in the Netherlands.

The restaurant had expanded since our last visit and the old familiar faces were gone, but luckily the food was still great. As always, we reflected back on the past year and made our list of highs and lows (which I posted on December 29 and January 4).

Afterwards we walked down to the beach to check out the progress on the giant bonfire being constructed for New Year’s Eve. While we had originally planned to head to the beach to see it lit on New Year’s Eve, I had second thoughts and so we skipped it. It was just as well as it nearly turned disastrous when firenados took off down the beach. Luckily no one was injured.