May 25, 2015

Halloween or Thanksgiving

 

May 25, 2015

Koningsdag/(nacht). It's a day like you have never experienced before in your life.
The city is a sea of orange, so many people you can barely move. DJ booths on every other street corner, people selling goods on the side of the streets and in the parks, alcohol being sold on the side of the street. Boats cruising down the canals, every one of them partying along to their own music. Everybody.is.f-----.

 

May 25, 2015

Thanks m8.

Yeah I'm trying to at least put some thought into them and not rush it too much, hopefully most of my threads will at least be semi interesting still.

 

May 25, 2015

This sounds VERY fun, what time of year does it take place and is it a national holiday or just kinda a local thing in the area where you live?

 

May 26, 2015

It's a national holiday in the Netherlands. I was lucky enough to be living there to experience it a couple of years in a row. It happens around the end of April, if you do plan on going, check the dates, as the first year I was there it was the 30th then changed to the 26/27.
It starts of in the night know as Koningsnacht (Kings Night) and then continues into the day - Koningsdag (Kingsday) to celebrate the Kings birthday.
It is amazing, and would recommend everybody try to get there at least once in their life. All I can say is, the Dutch sure know how to throw a party.

 

May 26, 2015

 

May 26, 2015

one of my very good friends doesn't celebrate halloween. he's hardcore religious though.

but what really shocked me was when he told me he's not gonna let his kids go trick or treating.

 

May 26, 2015

They all the same to me tbh

 

May 26, 2015

christmas

 

May 26, 2015

Surprisingly trick or treating doesn't seem as popular as it used to be, around here we barely even get any trick or treaters. I think more parents got paranoid for some reason so it's more common to not have them do that. I have no idea what they do instead, maybe go to halloween parties or something?

But yeah it's lame if parents don't let their kids trick or treat.

 

May 26, 2015

is halloween really "the devil's holiday"?

i'm not claiming it is, i don't know if it is or not

but this is the reason my buddy doesn't celebrate halloween

 

May 26, 2015

Well I guess if there's any holiday that's the devil's, it'd be halloween. 'Devil's night' for whatever reason usually refers to the night before halloween I believe.

 

May 26, 2015

did you learn that from listening to D12?

 

May 26, 2015

Haha quite possibly, I've known it for a while so I can't remember for sure though.

 

May 26, 2015

 

May 26, 2015

In the UK "holiday" = "vacation".

Therefore I'll answer the question in my language - that would be my honeymoon. 2 weeks in Mexico. We got a bank loan so that money was not an object and spent anything we wanted. Amazing time. One day relaxing, the next day site seeing. And so on until it was over. 2 weeks of pure bliss!

And to answer it in your language - it's a tough call between my birthday and Christmas but I'll go with Christmas as the older I get the more sentimental I get and actually enjoy spending time with the family!