Easter is one of the highest holy days in christianity that celebrates the resurrection of Christ from the dead. It is a time of year where friends and families gather together to celebrate this occasion with food and festivities.
It has become a tradition in our family to get together with very close friends and their family at the patriarch’s home on the suburbs. This home has an extensive backyard which extends approximately 300 yards back. Most of this yard was a former pasture where my friend family raised goats asnd sheep when she was a growing up. The yard has since been coverted into a nursery which contains a creek and various trails that are surrounded by differient varieties of azaleas, rhododendrons, flowers and other fauna. This layout has provided a venue for a world class Easter egg hunt.
Tradition has it that the now older children and their friends (the Easter Bunnies) hide some 300 plastic eggs filled with different candy treats and morsels in differnt places around the backyard earlier that morning. After the families arrive, the younger children get baskets and are then challenged as to who can find the most eggs around the nursery. They charge off and scamper around the lot scooping up eggs as fast as they can as the adults saunter behind watching this joyful activity.
After an hour or so and the eggs have been counted, the adults and the rest of the family search for those missing eggs that have remained hidden from those youngsters gaze. Sometimes the squirrels have found an egg or two and grabbed the little treats before this children find them.
Following the hunt all of guests gather around the table and the rest of the house to enjoy the food brought by the families attending and the fellowship that comes when seeing good friends. If the weather is nice, croquet in the back yard is always in the offing and there is nothing more fun than a cut throat game where siblings smash each others ball around the yard.
All in all this has become a great Easter tradition that we look forward to every year. As the younger children grow up it will be time for next generation to partake in the the famous Easter Egg Hunt – rain or shine the hunt goes on.
