Easter Fun

 I hope you all had a nice Easter day.  For us it was a truly beautiful, warm, sunny, blue sky day and believe me, in Michigan that doesn't happen often. We've had Easters with snow or rain or wind or winter coat cold.  But not yesterday.  Yesterday it was beautiful in more ways than weather.  

We finally cooked a meal for a group and invited daughter and  her family in.  We included SIL's parents, who happen to be fully vaccinated Friend Marilyn, who I talk about all the time here and Husband.  Because the house wouldn't be full of cousins yet this year, we thought we should do something fun especially for the girls.  Turned out it was fun for everyone.

 Activity One.  Egg toss.  Everyone got an apron to wear in anticipation.  We drew numbers out of a bowl and matching numbers were teams.  Well, that turned out perfectly.  Daughter and SIL were a team, PH and I were a team, though I wasn't too sure about the devious twinkle in his eye, and the girls were teamed with Friend Marilyn and Other Grandpa. I couldn't have planned that better if I tried.

As with all egg toss competitions, the toss starts out easy.

                            And then you have to put some thought into how to catch a raw egg.

 And then you have teams that are trying to be nice to each other. Just look at Friend Marilyn's gentle lob to Elizabeth.  No fair!

                                  But the inevitable is still going to happen.  It IS an egg toss!

 

 Next we moved to the driveway.  That long, twisty, steep driveway full of ruts, cracks and holes for an egg roll race.  We used plastic eggs for this one and the day before, PH and I tested how far the eggs would travel with or without a little ballast.  We tried an egg empty and with one, two or three marbles in them.  We determined the eggs with two marbles traveled best and farthest and had the most chance of getting through the ruts, cracks and holes.

                                                                     On your mark, get set.....

                                                                                  roll!

                                                                   Here they come!

Look whose blue egg won the day!  He's very proud of his prize AND winning. And yes, that's a gold medal he devised with beads and chocolate coins and a glue gun.  Everyone got one of those to wear. SOME in the group thought he had an advantage because he pre-tested the course the day before and thus knew which ruts, cracks and holes to avoid.  But not so, not so. Once launched, there is no controlling a plastic egg holding two marbles on a long, steep and curvy driveway.