A Mah-Jong tournament

The upcoming saturday there will be held a Mah-Jong tournament
at the Mah-Jong club where my parents, my sister and myself
are playing. The club is called De Oostpoort, which means
The Eastern Gate. It is called that because the Oostpoort is an
important landmark in the city of Delft. My father will be
tournament leader and my mother, my sister and myself will
be doing the catering. We like to play Mah-Jong also, but not
so much tournaments, which means playing many hours a day.
And since noone else wants to do the catering ... we do it.
Participants will be coming from all over the country and that
means meeting a lot of people you only meet a few times a year.
What a great way to catch up !

My Mah-Jong family

For the second time this year, the Mah-Jong club that my
parents (and two others) are founders of, organised a
tournament. This time a national NTS Tournament.




It was a lot of fun, but the counting of all the points is
always something that has to be done meticulously,
something that my father (to the left) is very good at.

Mah-Jong Tournament

About two years ago, my parents started a Mah-Jong club
and a few weeks ago, they organised the first club
tournament.


My dad is is on the right and my cousin Joost
is wearing a yellow shirt.


An overview and the prizes !


My sister and father talking tactics and my mother
is taking care of the player's food and drink needs.


My mother and sister put another kettle on.


More tactics and the players enjoying a drink after
playing all day.

New Mah-Jong Game

When i was on our most recent Family Mah-Jong Tournament
i got this gorgeous Mah-Jong game from my cousin Joost (who
also is the organiser of this family event). How lucky am i !
I think it is a really beautiful game. Notice that it lacks the
western numerals and lettering.

Mah-Jong Table no.2

My father has made another Mahjong table and this one
was a birthday present for my boyfriend, how lucky is he !
And i am too of course, since i get to play on it.

Mah-Jong Tournament

A few weeks ago we had our fourth family
Mah-Jong tournament. It was lots of fun again
and the last time it would be held at my cousin's
house at that time. Next year we will play either
in his new (smaller) house or at a public place.
As we play with over twenty family-members
it is quite possible he will not have enough space
to put in all the tables.



Here you can see my cousin Joost in action in the lower
left corner. He is in battle with his father (my uncle),
another uncle and another cousin (yes, we have a big
family).



Here you can see my sister Annemieke at play (wearing
purple) with our uncle and two nieces.



Two aunts and a niece are deep in thought at the
three-man table.



We are building the wall before a new round, i am
sitting in the top left corner. My opponents are
an aunt, a cousin-in-law and the daughter of my
niece. In the back you can see my mother and sister.



Me having a go at a wooden puzzle. I did not solve it, alas.
My father was is none of the pictures as he was taking the
photo's :)

My Crafty Family : part VII

My father has made this fantastic Mah-Jong table. It plays
really very nice. No drinks allowed on this one ! He reused
an old felt puzzle cloth to make the top.





Last week my sister came to visit us and she made this
Caroling Choir. How sweet they are. They look even
cuter in real life. They turned out very different from the
example on the package, which was kind of dull. So thumbs
up for "own interpretation".




She also made these Christmas Gnomes. They are just
too cute and cudly to be true. They will be looking lovely
and cheering up their living room this Christmas.



And last but certainly not least : my uncle crocheted these
awesome pot-holders. One in the Dutch colours and one in
the norwegian ones, as i am a dutchie living in Norway.
He made these using the Tunesian Crochet technique,
something he had not done before. They are looking really
great in the kitchen.

Mah-Jong family : Part II

A few weeks ago my cousin Joost (photograph no.1)
organised our third (bi)Annual Family Mahjong Tournament.
There were 21 participants if i am right and eventhough that
is only a small part of our family we had lots of fun. We played
during the afternoon and the better part of the evening.



Here you can see my dad in action, very concentrated
on the game. The winner of the tournament will recieve
the Ketelbink Jopie Award, which is named after my dad.
It was he that brought the game of Mahjong to the family
when returning from a journey when he was working in
the intercontinental seafaring business.



Here are my mum and sister playing at the same table,
my mum bottom left and my sister top right.

And here i am, playing one of the last games of that day.

Mah-Jong fun

As mentioned before, our family is very fond of the game
of Mah-Jong. All of our family members have atleast one
game, but there are several that have many. With the
playing of the game comes ofcourse the love for a pretty
game and to acquire a new gameset is just sheer fun.



Last week my father had such fun. He has come into the
posession of the game that is shown in these photographs.

Mah-Jong family

As i mentioned before, our family is very fond of the
game Mahjong. My cousin is on his way to become
a real Mahjong-celebrity even ! He is going to take
over the organisation of a dutch tournament called
the White Dragon Tournament, so i think that is
worth a congratulation :D


http://www.mahjong-gooi.nl/toernooi/

Mah-Jong

One of our family's favorite pastimes is playing Mah-Jong.
We like it that much that my cousin Joost has organised a
family tournament the past two years.



Joost is on the photograph underneath.



Last year we had over twenty participants, all familymembers !
We hope that Joost is willing to organise another tournament.
You can see on the photographs that we are having a areally good time.