Joyeux Paques!

Well, despite Vivi, Bo and I being sick off and on this past week with some evil stomach thing, we managed to thoroughly enjoy both having company and celebrating our resurrected Lord. Specifically for Easter we managed to dance at our Good Friday Service at church (video to be posted soon), enjoy local Easter gifts (see video below), dye eggs, and go to an Easter egg hunt at the tallest chateau in France, Chateau Brissac. Minus the vomiting episodes, it was some pretty good memory-making, I'd say!



Some shots from the Easter Egg Hunt:

This is Chateau Brissac. The hunt was in the forest on the castle grounds.

Here are Bo & Vivi hunting for eggs in the woods with all the other families. There were boatloads of people there. At first we thought we wouldn't find very many eggs - it was slow going. But then we discovered there were people disguised as hunters who were actually "replenishers" going around very stealthfully dropping new batches of eggs to be found! It got a lot easier after that!

We walked away with over 85 eggs. The official final count is under review because of unauthorized "taste-testing."

And finally, our annual egg-coloring tradition. We used a tarp on the floor because I was nervous we would stain the tiles. This year I learned I like coloring brown eggs better - they come out a gorgeous muted, earthy tone.