Easter Weekend

Because of the moon phases, I think, Easter was as late in the month of April as it could be. It was just last weekend.  What promised to be an exciting weekend with warm weather and some canoeing, was interrupted by lots of rain and staying indoors.  At any rate the spirit of blogging is a bit of a higher priority having been updating with more frequency, and also just enjoying putting down some thoughts and pictures to this form of media.  Not a lot of extraordinary notes, but still.

Easter starts on Friday morning around here.  My buddies and I got a run in during the rain, but it didn't dampen our spirits too much.  The Boston Marathon took care of that a week prior with my one buddy running 3:10 and the other ran about 3:20.  Despite having put in an incredible amount of work, the return on investment was terrible for them and they were quite disappointed.  There was a great deal of running going on this winter, and they both missed their marks and goals.  However they shook off some cobwebs and picked up their pride for 6 miles of talk and reminiscing of what went wrong and not as planned.

Two hours later the group rejoined on Lighthouse Street for a huge brunch.  Quarterbacking this event started with me in my single days, and it is an event that has continued.  About 15 people in all, were over for a french toast oven bake recipe, some scrambled eggs, muffins, mimosas, fruit salad, yogurt, coffee and bacon.  There was lots to eat, lots of kids, and lots of mess.  But in the end the traditional preserved itself for this year at least.  I am sure there are more to come.

But it rained quite heavily on Friday and Saturday so the initial Saturday plan of canoeing was sunk, and it just prevents us from walking over to the park or getting out bicycles.  We aren't witches or made of sugar, but being out in the rain is not something that I'd do on purpose if it can be avoided.  So it was indoor projects that we attended to.  Actually on Saturday afternoon my dad, the kids and I went to the dump.  My trailer was full of a year or two worth of disposables, and it was time to get rid of them.

On Sunday it was a great day.  Really nice weather, sunny and warm, so it was more of an outdoor kind of day.  The morning started with a neighbourhood Easter egg hunt.  There were about 6 kids and we were up the street.  The parents had coffee and muffins, and the kids were in the yard finding a bounty of hidden treasures.  It was a fun event, and much different then a municipal free-for-all where only the strong survive.  Our town has one of those events - Darwin would be thrilled, but though the spirit of it nice, it is just like kids on the loose from Lord of the Flies.  So the neighbourhood hunt was nice.

There would be a bit of a gathering up at Shelly's parents' place.  Seeing as though the Leaf's game would start at 3:15 or so, we timed the ride to coincide with the drop of the puck.  Watching hockey would have been the perfect rainy day plan.  It was a bit of a shame to watch the game with such nice weather out, but after all it was a playoff and elimination game, so it seemed like a important enough event to view.  The Leafs lost.  It was a bit disappointing, similar to that of staying inside during such a nice day.

That just leaves Monday to summarize.  It was a great day so we were outside a lot on the bikes and out for a walk across the bridge and on the trail.  We walked up to an old neighbour's house for a hello.  The kids are old enough to rip around the block on their own so that they did.