Easter Sunday was a beautiful California spring day. Joe & I walked to Ellen's and greeted Mary and Audrey, who were in their Easter finery. They both had on new spring dresses, Easter bonnets, white gloves, white shoes, and cute little pocketbooks. Scott drove us to church, because Ellen had already gone, since she was going to play the saxophone during the Mass. They go to an Episcopal church in Menlo Park.
After Mass, the church had an Easter egg hunt for the kids. Mary was in one section with the bigger kids, and Audrey was with the little tykes. We really need to teach Mary how to hunt for eggs. She goes where the other kids are, and gets there after they have already scoured the area and gotten all the eggs. She needs to be able to go "where no man has gone before" to hunt for eggs. But finally, we did go somewhere else, and she found plenty of eggs (with the help of the girl who hid them) One of the eggs (hidden by the girl's brother) was on the rim of the basketball net. Now how could we get that one down? Well, the girl helped shake the net until the plastic egg dropped off, and Mary got it.
After that, we went back to Ellen's and ate candy, (and a light lunch) Friends of theirs from Scott's fellowship were coming over for Easter dinner and another egg hunt around 2:30. One family was from Seoul, Korea, and the other family was from Beijing, China. Ellen wanted to show people from other cultures how we celebrate Easter. We had a wonderful time with the Asians. We ate ham, kolbasz, stuffed cabbage, asparagus, hard boiled eggs, and I made csoroge, which is a Hungarian fried cookie sprinkled with powdered sugar.
The little Asian children (the Korean family had 2 daughters and the Chinese family had 1 daughter) really enjoyed the egg hunt and all the candy. All the kids played together really well, and we adults had a wonderful time talking and joking. They are very nice people and spoke English pretty well. It was a great day until we had to say goodbye, because we were leaving the next day!
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