Pre-Easter Hunt

This is our first New Zealand Easter.  And while I'm soooo glad to be back with real chocolate and hot cross buns (more on those later), Easter isn't as commericalised here, so people don't really do egg hunts.  And in order to keep Malachi's American heritage alive, we had a little hunt.  The weather was terrible, every time we planned to do it, some unseasonal storm would hit and it would be postponed (Easter is in autumn here, not spring.).  But we held it none the less, and despite the odd blue lip, the kids had a blast.  But in all honesty, I think the parents had more fun, watching all the kids.  It was funny, Katherien only wanted big gold eggs, Malachi only wanted little coloured eggs, Hannah got one egg and then just wanted to eat that one and didn't care about any more eggs, every time Katherine bent down to pick up an egg she'd drop all the rest and Caitlyn was right there to pick them all back up again.  It was fun.

First they made little baskets and decorated them.

Get ready.......

Go!

With their loot.

Vili was asleep, so on the real Easter weekend, we'll have another hunt so Vili had have his first little hunt.  Means I'll have to get more eggs to replace the ones I've already eaten.....

Fun day though!