The next thing we did

Was to go to the local petting zoo. They had a pony ride and they had painting and they had an easter egg hunt. It was the only easter egg hunt I could find, so off we went.

When you went through to the easter egg hunt area, they gave you a little card with an egg on it. Douwe's was green. Daan's was blue and yellow. We thought they were nice. My children then swept through the area finding eggs like little vultures, jumping up and down with glee at each find and so on. They had a great time. There were a lot of children and their parents wandering around apparently aimlessly, which seemed odd as the eggs were hidden for little kids, that is, not really very well. They were just sort of tossed out there, lying on the grass.

Um.

Turns out that you are only supposed to find the one egg which corresponds in color to your little card. Whoops. We had all the eggs those wandering kids were looking for in our baskets. Ahem.

While we were busy apologizing and everybody was laughing, the boys ran off suddenly back into the hunt area. I went after them, to find them re-hiding the eggs. One or the other figured it out.

So it had a happy ending, because everyone agrees that my kids are very good at hiding eggs. They should be, they practiced all morning.

Then we figured out that the eggs had things in them, also a surprise. Douwe won a pony ride, and Daan won an ice cream. It is good that it was not the other way around, becasue Daan is afraid of ponies and Douwe hates ice cream. What a coincidence, and how nice that it came out that way.

By the way, mom, and completely tangentially, thanks for the book on magic tricks and sleight of hand. I know it was for Douwe, but he can't read yet so I have to read it for him.

So anyway then we went to see the week-old chicks they have at the petting zoo. That was the end of the line for the boys; they stayed there probably an hour and a half. We did some other stuff, but the chicks were the big event for them.

Douwe took one look at the line for the pony ride and said he didn't want to ride a pony. "I already have" he said. Okay, so I guess he won't grow up a horseman.