YMCA Easter Egg Hunt

was fun except for the Easter Egg Hunt part. That was a resounding failure.

We got there about midway through the festivities, and the children immediately wanted to go into the petting zoo. Almost all of the pictures on here are from the the petting zoo.

Then the organizers called for the last Easter egg hunt for the day. Apparently there had been several earlier that we had missed, which had been for different ages. This last one was for "everybody." Well, at the sound of "GO!" the kids swarmed onto the field like a cloud of locusts devouring crops in Egypt.

At the end of the swarm, little children here and there were crying because they had found ZERO eggs. Older kids were about to cry because they had found only THREE eggs. And the older kids didn't feel any better that the younger children had found ZERO eggs. I couldn't believe that they 1) wouldn't have had more eggs, 2) wouldn't have limited the hunt to those children that had not participated in previous hunts, 3) did not have the younger children begin 30 seconds earlier with the older children following, 4) or... I don't know--something! After a bit of crying, the children decided to go into the moonwalk.

They jumped for about 30 minutes or so and wanted to go back into the petting zoo. So we (and others) closed out the petting zoo. The saddest thing happened at the end of that time. I don't know if any children noticed, but one of the little bunnies was dragging its hindquarters, and the owners picked it up to take it back to the "barn," otherwise known as a trailer. Kirk figured that someone must have stepped on it and broken its back. I'm so upset and sad for that bunny.



All in all, the children had fun. I just so terribly wish that the bad parts had not happened. We came home and finished up the day's Easter festivities with some egg dyeing.