Pella Iowa Tulip Festival Parade

[ReddoFreddo]

some dutch words:

bicycle: fiets (pranounce: feets)

cheese: kaas (pranounce kAs with the A as in aaaaaa when someone drops to dead)

tulip: tulp (pranounce t-ulp)

clog: klomp (pranounce: clomp)

poop: poep (pranounce poop)

watching TV: hoeren neuken (pranounce: hooren nöken with the ö as in a swedish ö)

[dutchrobbie100]

@ReddoFreddo hehehe

[neukertification]

Sinterklaas is jarig zet hem op de pot....LOL i remember singing this in Holland.

[PA7DA]

Pella is more Dutch than the most in the Netherlands. Verrassend Geweldig.

Jaap van Duin, Noordwijk, Nederland

[runescapenoob34]

I live there. its best town in the world

[nathanjjm]

@runescapenoob34 i was born there it is like the best town i used to march in the parade every year but now i live in san diego

[dutchrobbie100]

@runescapenoob34 pella looks more dutch then any city in dutchland ;)

[studeystudebaker50]

we visit pella a couple time a yr always enjoy it,also had a studebaker club meet there

[iowarox5596]

i went there last year and i get to go till im out uv highschool!! woo and my bff lives there

[golfrick007]

Back when I lived in Newton Went to tulip time alot. Love those Dutch letters(YUM)!

[kvonribbenburg]

You mean the chocoladeletters? Those are eaten when Sinterklaas (the Dutch equivalent to Santaclaus) enters the Netherlands by boat.

[golfrick007]

The dutch letter are almost like A pie crust with almond paste in the middle in the shape of S. They sell them at one of the bakerys. I can't think of the name of it right now.

[kvonribbenburg]

That's a pastry letter. In Dutch it's called banketletter.

[dutchrobbie100]

@kvonribbenburg Banketstaaf <<<

[dutchrobbie100]

@golfrick007 Banketstaaf

[Retrobowler]

My uncle works at the bakery there its jaarsma I think but hes been working thier for 30 years already

[Pavy8]

im from pella and tulip time is so awesome

[maloona2u]

to answer your question they are sweeping the streets because the queen is coming. the roads need to be clean for the queen. (its a tradition.)

[krogers1048]

i was in pella in may of 2008 what a great town, good people, tulip time was fun, but its the people that make this town.

[belkin192]

wow only in iowa

[KelseyHuiz]

I dissagree that the parade its only good the first couple of times. I lived in Pella and it never got boring. I still go there every year and now I live out of state.

[Libusja]

what is that with the water sweeping???????

[Fluteandpiano]

They do that before the parade goes by because the dutch are really clean. so we cleen the street.

[golfrick007]

I was in north part of Germany back in 84 and I have to say the people of that town were real clean also. They we up early and taking care of the outside of the house.

[jorenm]

why are the zwarte pieten ( Sinterklaas's henchmen)WHITE they are supposed to be black.

thats why they are called zwarte (Black) pieten,

if you all were Dutch u would respect the tradition..

[BadPsyTron]

Too bad because those things are rather nice to wear. (*translation)

[BadPsyTron]

I am Dutch... but we don't wear them.

Jammer wel want die dimge zitten best lekker.

[thejking]

GREAT!!! i never knuw there was a dutch festival in the US.

The funny thing is i NEVER EVER EVER EVER could have dreamed that there wil be a sinterklaas (guy with the red clothing i case you didnt know) in the US.

i had heard that some us people have a dutch lastname (since we HAD new amsterdam)is that true??

and a real amsterdam birge!! beautifull

[helmuthoorn]

In the XIXth century there was a reverend called Scholte, who quarreled with EVERYBODY in the Netherlands. So he took his parish and went to the States. Because he was also on bad terms with reverend Van Raalte (the founder of Holland Michigan) he and his people went to Iowa.