Easter at Indian Creek Campground

March 30, 2013

What a fun Easter Egg Hunt!

Did you ever consider that Easter Egg Hunts are similar to gourmet meals, fireworks, and teaching?  Sad but true as you spend hours in preparation and the consumption requires but a few minutes.  Perhaps that is the case for most quality endeavors.

Viewing the clouds from Indian Creek Campground

Here is the story... Heather Murphy created slips of paper with titles of prizes, stuffed plastic eggs, numbered, and taped them shut.  Then she secured the matching prizes.  Friday night, 8 PM, cold rain finds Billy and I hiding the eggs and recording the hiding places; after an hour we adjourned for a warming beverage.  However, 7 AM Saturday in the cold damp dawn we are again hiding the remaining eggs in preparation for the "Hunt".


Pavilion at 10 AM.  Fourteen children arrive to find 51 eggs.  This does not divide evenly so Heather says, "Four eggs each but those who find only three will get an extra gift."  Off they go to find eggs.

Did I get the big Easter Basket?

  
Five minutes later the first hunters arrive with four eggs in each Easter basket to await the opening of the eggs and awarding of "prizes".  Twenty minutes later all eggs are found and prizes awarded.  

Still it was fun to see the children smile with anticipation as to the prize they would win.  Amazingly, all congratulated the gal who won the grand prize, a complete Easter basket.

Maybe there is merit in all the preparation required when pleasing others.