Here in SLT, Easter Sunday is celebrated with morning mass and a stroll by the Lake. We thought we'd share our tradition of the Easter Egg Hunt. I tried to come up with a complicated explanation for the tradition by claiming that Easter Eggs represent a story in the bible in which Elizabeth's eggs turned red when she became fertile again but I got voted down by my gringo friends and ultimately Wikipedia betrayed me and left me with no better explanation for an Easter Egg Hunt than that eggs are a symbol of new life and kids love candy.We dyed eggs on Saturday ... 60 in all for the 10 kids. And then got the adults to help us hide the eggs on Sunday morning. Canche was up earliest and asking about the hunt all morning but we didn't get started until 10:30. Mom and I had time to get to the market and get started on our lunch for the whole gang of grilled cheese and tomato soup.
Anyway, the kids had a blast searching for their eggs and playing egg-games after the hunt for prizes. Angel told me this morning that little Canche was up until 11pm re-hiding and re-finding his eggs. He is great at entertaining himself!
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