Easter Egg Hunt

Last Saturday we went to Branch Creek Community Church for an Easter Egg Hunt.

It was a cold day (at least to start with) as we drove through snow flurries to get to the church by 11am. We were a little late as there were so many people attending that traffic was backed up for a mile with people trying to park. The church was expecting approximately 3,000 people to attend - there must have been at least double that - it was so crowded.

Thankfully the kids didn't mind the crowd. I felt a little more at ease once we had arranged a meeting place if one of them got lost.

The church had filled 50,000 eggs, so there were plenty to go around. They had 3 different areas for the hunt. The first was for 0-3 year olds, then the 4-5 year olds and finally 1-5 grade children.

I jumped into the hunt with Deanna, and Gary went with Jeremiah - they needed a little help otherwise they would have been crushed in the stampede. Daniel, Elaina, Nicholas and Naomi were quite capable to hold their own with the chaos that surrounded their hunt.

After the hunt we made our way to the food tent. All that excitement made them hungry. They devoured a whole pizza way too quickly.

There were many activities to entertain the kids in the afternoon. They enjoyed the bouncy castles - well, all except Deanna, she didn't last long before she got too scared and wanted out.

The petting zoo was a great hit. This was Deanna's favorite. She loves to touch and stroke anything soft. She could have spent hours in there petting the rabbits if we had let her.

Nicholas was really excited about the pony rides. He has been asking to ride one for a long time and enjoyed getting the chance to do so. Although, from the look on his face, Jeremiah seemed to have the best time riding the pony as the smile never left his face from the time he got on to after he dismounted.

After the pony rides they had more turns on the bouncy castles and finally inside to check out what was going on there. We found a magic show that had just started. This fascinated the kids for about 15 minutes. At least the older ones, by this time Deanna was getting exhausted.

As we were planning to leave we saw that the line for the hayrides was short so some of us decided to ride before we went home. What was really fun for the kids, was that the Easter Bunny decided to join us for that ride. It fascinated Jeremiah. He spent most of the ride staring at the Easter Bunny trying to figure out if there was someone in there. I had so much fun watching the expressions on his face as he was trying to work all this out.

So, as you see we had a wonderful day. It was great to get out as a family and do something fun for the kids. We are grateful to the church who put on all the entertainment for free. We truly appreciated it - and so did the kids.

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Michelle