Easter Weekend

On Friday we dyed eggs.  We did 3 dozen and it lasted only 30 minutes.  I wish I had another couple dozen to make it last.  My mom always says that eggs are cheap fun, and the activity should last a long time and she is right – that dye could last for two hundred eggs, I’m sure.  I moved the kid table into the kitchen and they had lots of fun.  Eliora only dropped one! (We dyed it anyway.)  I thought the clean up amazing: dump dye, eggs in fridge, towel in the laundry…. Presto, clean kitchen!

                                      

Saturday we went to the park, had a picnic and fed the ducks.  Strangely, there were tents set up all over, but not many cars or people around.  Apparently, the City of San Antonio lifts the curfew on its city park on the night before Easter so people can camp out one night.  I’m sure it was crowded enough that no one slept.  We were back at the park the next Wednesday and it was a huge mess, covered mostly in colored egg shells.  Here it is a big thing to buy colored eggs (cascarones) that are filled with confetti and smash them over each other’s head for good luck.

Easter itself happens very quickly.  In the morning we had hidden baskets and plastic Easter eggs with marshmallows in them.  When we were done hiding the eggs, I looked around and for the first time I couldn’t see any eggs in plain view (the middle of the carpet).   We had a 2 and almost 4 year old and finding eggs was a great game we played over and over and over.  We had so much monkey bread for breakfast that we weren’t at all hungry for lunch, went to church, had egg salad sandwiches for dinner.