HE'S ALIVE!!!!

Happy belated Easter, everyone.  I was going to post yesterday, but figured my Easter treat would be a day without getting online.  It was great and well needed. 

We had an absolutely wonderful Easter.  Naturally, the kids found chocolate on Easter morning.  They also had to find 2 dozen eggs hidden around the apartment. 

By the way, see that "Kinder Surprise" right there?  Those are hollow chocolate eggs that have a capsule inside that contain a surprise toy for the kids.  I saw an article today that these have been banned by US Border patrol for containing a non-nutritive object imbedded in it.  Seriously.  Apparently, they think US kids will swallow the large capsule inside. 

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20110422/kinder-surprise-eggs-ban-110422/

Anyway, they also got big chocolate chickens.  REALLY big chocolate chickens.

They also had to find 2 dozen hard boiled eggs within the apartment.  The Bunny did well hiding them this year, but the kids found all of them!

After that, we got some breakfast and got ready for church.  There was a special family-oriented service and fun day planned for Easter.  Sandy and I volunteered to help setup in the park during service so that everything would be ready to go once service was over.

For the kids, there was face painting:

Egg relay races:

A great new game where you toss a water balloon between 2 teams that use only a sheet to launch the balloon to the other team:

And of course, there was an Easter Egg hunt.  There were a lot of eggs. 

In fact, they estimated just under 2000 eggs.  And there were about 25 kids.  Once the kids were told to "go" it got crazy. 

The problem was that the bags the kids were given weren't anywhere close to big enough, so when they filled up their bags, they had to come back.  Nick came back with a full bag, and many full pockets.  Thank you, cargo shorts!

The kids had to come back, empty the content of their eggs into their bags, leave the eggs behind, and head out for more. 

I think some of these kids could work for NASCAR pit crews in the future.  Sorry.  We're in France.  Formula 1 pit crews.

Every kid got more candy than they could imagine.  The weather was beautiful.  In fact it was a little "hot" for Paris in April at 75 degrees.  The eggs that had chocolate melted:

We then walked to the train station to head home.  We had a wonderful dinner of... mystery meat.  We went to the Boucherie (butcher) down the street on Saturday and got what Sandy thought was a ham and I thought was a pork knuckle.  It was neither, but it was very good!

After a long day of Easter festivities and a good meal, we finished the day with Skype sessions with both sets of grandparents.  Honestly, could the day have been any better here?

I hope you felt the Grace of God and were able to appreciate the miracle of the Resurrection on Sunday.  We definitely did.