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| The Ugandan Easter Bunny wishes you all a Christ filled Easter. He is risen! He is risen indeed! |
Happy Easter everyone! We had a very low key one here, depending on which family member you were. We spent the morning together eating candy and hunting Easter eggs, then split off to go to church with the neighbors (kids), bake pies (me), and cook pork (David). After church the young un's were off to Kampala for a birthday party and ANOTHER egg hunt, while David and I stayed home, ate, watched a movie, cleaned out Olaf's anal glands and checked his prostate. We believe in a bit of non traditional and variety filled fun for holidays ;)
Who needs Pintrest any ways?? Oh wait... maybe I do!!! Check out Frankie's (on the right) cool Easter basket - looks suspiciously like on of my mixing bowls... ;)
I am a CHEAP person but something got into me this year and I spent about $20 on Easter CANDY. That's right - on CANDY!!! Candy in Uganda is not cheap and so those bits you see in the picture above is about $20 worth. More candy than they'll see the rest of the year, I can assure you ;)
I really wanted to get them each a traditional chocolate Easter bunny but to my amusement the huge shopping center (Nakumatt) only had chocolate Santa Claus! I thought it would be funny to get them a chocolate Santa for Easter, but then thought about how old the Santa's were and just decided to go without!
Tearing into their Easter chocolate! To see their delight with their mixing bowl and Peep Easter baskets was worth every shilling I spent on their Easter candy. They also each got a toy in their baskets - Frank a bug cage and L some Legos.
An Easter Egg Hunt was specially requested this year and I wondered just how I would pull it off, what with nine curious dogs around who love nothing more than a hard boiled egg. But my problems were solved with the blessing of twenty plastic eggs, which I filled with toys (more Legos and a plastic hunting man with his dogs and ducks). All of the eggs made it out unscathed and into the bags of the children, too!
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| Easter Egg Hunt! |
Yeah, this was the only picture I got of the Easter Egg hunt. When kids are little and walk and hunt slowly cute pics are easy to get. That changes when they are bigger and hunt full speed ahead! And yes, we DO buy Frankie shirts... he just chooses not to wear them half the time :).
Due to the recent (scary) terrorist threats and horrific attacks in East Africa, security was tight for the Easter Egg Hunt. Just look at that serious look on Rusty's face!
Unloading the Eggs
Easter Bunny looks on
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Dude makes for a rather cute little Easter Bunny. Photo ops are better with a shirt, I know, but YOU try to catch and dress him!
Easter Bunny decides to literally crash the party. L holds her off.
I HAD to get this picture because he had just happily exclaimed "I have six pieces of candy in my mouth!" You can kind of see them in his cheeks! Haaa!!! They ate an ungodly amount of candy. For breakfast :)
This chap, his dogs and prey (ducks not pictured) made it out of various Easter Eggs. Poor dude had to be split in half between two eggs to fit inside!
The following pics are of Frankie, his newly acquired bug cage, net and tweezers, and his buddy J. Frankie has not outgrown his love and fascination for bugs and insects!
"What's up there?"
"Let me get a closer look."
"I shall grab it with my tweezers"
"Got it! Now I shall tell you all about it, J."
It was grasshopper poop apparently. Sometimes I think we have the BEST neighbors EVER. They know we are strange and eccentric and don't really care at all ;)
Had to include this picture of Olaf, just because he was looking so noble. This was before his anal gland cleaning (I did one all by myself!) and prostate check (I left that to the expert).
"Aw crap. The bunny ears!"
In addition to learning how to clean a dogs anal glands out, I also successfully learned how to make bean and carrot pies this Easter! Thanks to a Whatsapp tutorial from my Mom, I was able to make an amazing bean pie (sounds gross but tastes amazing - not like beans at all!). Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks (that would apply to both me and the pies and Mom using a smartphone and Whatsapp!)?
Bean on the left, carrot on the right, both smothered in WHIPPED CREAM TOPPING!!!
Silly me forgot to get a picture with my camera of the pies when they were finished (only on my phone to show Mom how they'd turned out!), but here they are served up and ready to eat, with the whipped cream topping that my friend brought from Europe for me.
Get a load of that whipped cream topping! And the messy counter behind it... ;)
So the rest of the day wasn't near as exciting or picture worthy. David cooking (without bunny ears even), us eating, us watching a movie, us falling asleep during the movie, dog eating half the carrot pie that was sitting on the counter, me freaking out. The kids had a fabulous time in Kampala at their party, where they hunted Easter eggs AGAIN, ate MORE candy, and didn't get home until after 9pm! My little chicks are growing up!
