Easter- Aussie Style

  Easter is a pretty big holiday here. There are isles full of chocolate eggs and bunnies. We had an Easter egg hunt at the school a week ago. The playground was full of eggs and the kids had a great time. The Easter Bunny does things a little differently when he stops on Australia. The two biggest differences I noticed were no plastic eggs and no jellybeans. Luckily we brought our plastic eggs so he had something to work with. Also no egg dye kids and no white eggs.
  We dyed brown eggs several different ways. An in the end I think I liked the plain food coloring the best. The glitter was a hit with the kids and the shaving cream was so-so. But we had fun trying all the different ways.
  Easter morning everyone was up extra early. The EB had left a Skittle (instead of jellybean) trail from each kid's door and he only made the trail go to the top of the stairs. He must have heard my concerns about ants wanting to have a taste of the goodies in they were on the kitchen floor. The baskets were overflowing as usual with togs, Legos, & candy. We had 2 separate egg hunts. 1 outside, where each kid found a specific style of egg (MA-glitter, DB- sports, EL- girlie designs). Inside those eggs was money. Something a little different for the Aussie EB. Inside it was a free for all to get any and all eggs you could find. There were filled with candy- Milky Way, Skittles, choc eggs, and Nerds. Foil wrapped chocolate eggs are the most popular type of candy for Easter in Australia. So I feel like we had a nice combo of USA/ AUS for this Easter. The rest of the day we build new Lego sets and just relaxed.