Here Comes Peter Cottontail - April 4

The American Women's Auxiliary committee that was in charge of the Trunk-or-Treat decided to host an Eggstravaganza. An egg hunt. Since I was suckered in to being on the committee at the last moment in October, I was grandfathered on to this event as well.

So on this specific Saturday, the four of us on the committee went to a park extra early, decorated with signs and banners, threw 1462 stuffed eggs (we did the stuffing three weeks earlier) in the grass and waited for people to arrive.

We had about 57 children take part in the egg hunt. Each family brought a dish to share. We had two plates of hot cross buns (which are apparently an Easter tradition, but I don't know why), a couple of salads, rice krispie treats, donuts, chips, mini-sandwiches and cupcakes.

Overall, not a bad turnout for the first year. We had discussed getting a costume for the giant bunny but it didn't fit in our budget. We ordered our stuff from Oriental Trading and then had it shipped over (which the bulk of budget was shipping). Here a 12 pack of eggs was $4.95 and we could get a gross of eggs for OT for $8.99. At the last minute we got someone to donate a costume in return for advertising in the AWA magazine. Because it still makes me laugh, the man in the giant bunny suit, is Seth's supervisor. Even though Lilly knows him, she was still scared of the giant bunny thing!