Easter

One nice thing about being in Japan, is that we can celebrate a holiday and post it on the blog before everyone back home in the states wakes up for that same holiday.

It's Easter. This is the first year that we colored eggs with William. He was old enough last year, but since we were in the Navy Lodge at the time, it wasn't practical. Last night, we broke out the PAAS coloring kit and went to town. William had a blast, though many of the eggs have nice little flat spot stress fractures from the handling. Oh, well, that added a bit of color to the egg salad sandwiches we had today...

We got together with friends at the park and we hid some 192 plastic eggs all over the park then let the kids loose (with the under 10 crowd getting a 30 second head start) while the parents sat around and drank Mimosas and ate cinnamon rolls. The kids looked over their booty and traded phone bling found in the eggs for chocolate.

We then played a few rounds of kickball and called it a day.

Great fun!

CAROLINE'S NOTE: We had an avid reader ask if Japanese celebrate Easter. The answer is 'no.' It is based on a Christian holiday. When I explained to Japanese friends that we give candy to children, she said, "So it's like Halloween?" Japanese mainly follow Shintoism and Buddhism. So, they don't have Easter. We invited one of my student's family. He has 3 of the cutest kids. They had a great time, and it was fun to share with them an American tradition.