5. THE PARTY

The day has finally come. The penguins are the first to attend the party. That wonderful fishy smell, they no longer could resist it.

The others came also and it was immediately fun.
Everyone from de Lauwerkrans had come. The two men who are playing chess are twins. They argue a lot about who is the best because they are actually both equally good. The penguins , except for serious, think chess is stupid. 

 

They are only interested in the table with fish. 
But serious looks at the game and actually wants to learn that.

The main guests are of course the frogs. They sit in the centre with the stack of presents at their feet.
Especially Finn loves to unpack  but Daan does some unpacking too.

While unpacking, the family from the 1970s comes in.
“Sorry we're late. The baby was still asleep and the fruit pie needed some more time in the oven ”. They sit down quickly and the dachshund goes straight to the little one. Those 2 are good friends.

More unpacking to do. What a lot of gifts. They have already unpacked 2 embroidered cushions and a pot with a water lily. Magnificent!

They continue like this until John is to unpacks his last present, a painting. He stares at it for a long time and everyone gets uncomfortable. Wouldn't he like it? Then he looks up and says in a sobbing voice, “Here it was. My dear wife Klara was eaten here. She was sitting on a water lily and there stood the stork ”. He points to the painting.

"Look  children," he says. That's where I last saw our mother. And because he was crying a bit, Daan and Finn also started to cry. What a pitiful sight. Suddenly the party was no longer fun. It was dead quiet.

Then the lady of the ASC got up and said: "can I have your attention?"

The lady spoke fondly about the frogs. About their grief and also about their great resilience with which they had processed this grief. Father John in particular received a great compliment. Then she knew some funny anecdotes and finally she said: "let's sing our song now".

 And there it sounded together:
1,2,3,4, the frogs are ( 2x )
1,2,3,4 the frogs that are here .
Welcome John and Daan and Finn.
Are you having a good time.
1,2,3,4, the frogs that are here.

 Everyone laughed because of the terrible way the penguins sang and when the frogs started singing the chorus, it sounded horrible.
Then the lady said: "the buffet is open". The penguins ran to the table and everything was finished in an instant. The table manners of the penguins were disputable but no one said anything about it.

 What had the frog got?
2 embroidered cushions of de Lauwerkrans
2 ships in a bottle of de Lauwerkrans
1 water lily in a pot of de Lauwerkrans
1 wood painting of the 70's house (they didn't like that very much)
1 painting of the waterfront of the lady of het Kanthuisje

What beautiful gifts.
You could tell that everyone had thought carefully about the presents.
But what had they received from the penguins ? Nothing.
Nobody thought that was weird. The penguins themselves certainly not.

When the party was over, they all helped to clean up and put the presents neatly upstairs.
And look how cozy the room looks now.

“ Why do you always wear those binoculars around your neck?” grandfather asked.
"Because we don't have a place to hang them," said John softly.
"I'll hit a few hooks in the wall tomorrow, " said Grandpa. But now I'm off to bed.
The other guests also went home.
"This was the best party ever" thought the penguins and immediately fell asleep.

Daan and Finn fell asleep exhausted, but father John didn't want to sleep yet.
He went to look at the painting again and now it no longer made him sad, but rather happy.
He thought of the beautiful time he spent there on the bank with his lovely wife Klara.

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