Many of you may recognize this house from your visits to Bonaire. It is the first house on the road to Nikkiboko, near the church in town. For those of you that don't visit Bonaire at Christmas time, they go all out when decorating this house. These are pictures from last year.

This has always been one of my favorites. I usually drive by it on my way to my children's play school and several of my babysitters' homes.

Oh, almost forgot. Here is the schedule for some Xmas concerts if any of you will be visiting during Xmas.
Dec 17 at 6:30pm Wilhelmina Plaza (downtown Kralendijk)
Dec 23 at 5:30pm Misa di Playa (church with the clock tower downtown - per my babysitter)
Dec 26 at 5:30pm SGB (high school on Kaya Korona)

My understanding is there will be a number of performers or groups. My 5 year old daughter with a group of about 25 kids will be singing Christmas carols in Papiamentu, Dutch, Spanish and English. Those little kids are amazing.

Thanks for posting the photos. It rivals some of the homes that we see up here in the NY metro area. Some displays here are so big people start putting them up in October. Happy Holidays.

Boy I am glad to see that the children are still singing around Christmas time. That was one of the things we REALLY liked when we came to Bonaire for Christmas/new Years. And now that we come at a different time, we miss that.

Here are this year's decorations.

The first thing I saw when my ISP came back. Beautiful. And you, too! Our own divine Miss M ! Happy Holidays.

wow, they keep getting better each year. Very pretty, well done!
Gonna go over and see this for real tonight. Drove by there during the day yesterday. Not only does the house look very very different at night with all those little lights on.... also during the day it takes on a different appearance. It's for the most part boarded up with black plywood with loads of small holes to stick the lights through.

Na Hulanda nos a wak e kas di nos mayornan, anto nos a keda hopi kontentu di wak'e. Nos ta hanja e kas masha masha bunita! Maske nos ta leu, mirando e kas nos ta sinti nos hopi serka. Pasa un Pasku yen di dicha i bendishon i un anja nobo yen di prosperidad, ta deseo di Noris, Erika, Dorothy, Radjesh, Harvey, Ramley, Rayvin i Lieneke.

This is the house of our (grand/)parents and thanks to you Ellen we could see it in Holland, where we live now. Thanks a lot!

I am glad that you enjoyed the pictures of the Salsbach house, Noris and family! Tur ana nan ta haci un bunita obra(every year they do a beautiful job of decorating). Here are the last two pictures of the house.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Bon Pasku i Felis Ana 2001





p.s. Say hello to Ramley(Pacheiks!!)from Jason.

What a wonderful suprise it is to see the pictures of my aunts' house and see the message of my cousins in Holland. Thanks Ellen. Noris, Erika, Dorothy and the rest of the family Bon Pasku from the Butts in the US. Email me at Butts@gate.net

Liesje, Ruhail and Khadija

And this wonderfully lighted house also made a full color back page of Extra (local paper) on January 6th. As well as apearing on another web site http://www.planetchristmas.com/pictures_2000.htm
Thanks to Ellen Muller for spreading the good cheer.

We also got a nice plug for our very own BonaireTalk newsgroup as a place to view great pictures of the house.

This thread continues for 2001 at:
http://www.oldbonairetalk.com/newsgroup/messages/36/15301.html