Food fest

A little while ago, we had our annual 'Vreetfeest'.
Translation anyone?
'Food fest' comes to mind now, but there is probably a better word.
Anyway, 16 years ago, in our first year of college, we decided we did not want to do a regular St. Nicholas celebration with our new-found friends. But we wanted to do something festive.
So we decided on this Vreetfeest.
It is basically a pot-luck dinner, where everyone brings a dish.
Nothing special, you might think.
However, our group is the only group I know of who has a completely non-organized pot-luck dinner. Not only are we completely free to decide what kind of dish to bring, it is custom to keep it a BIG secret until right before we start the dinner.
The first year we had so much food we didn't even taste the final dish (which was mine )-: ).
We quickly learned to bring as much food as you could eat by yourself. So when there is a big group you will have very tiny portions, but in the end you will have had enough.
Only once did it not work out for people like me who cannot eat too much sweets: we had 2 main courses and I believe 8 desserts... Usually it is a great mixture of appetizers, entrees, and desserts.
On the big night we write the name of our dish on a poster on the wall (as cryptic as possible), and 1 or 2 of us decide the order in which the dishes will be served. Here's this years poster:















And some of the dishes we had:





















I love our Vreetfeest, can't wait until next year!

Then on the 9th it was Martijn's birthday. I had a picture of Bram printed on linen for him (60 by 60 cm, so about 2 foot long and wide):












And here is Bram working on his present: his first ever drawing!