Happy Easter, everyone!
Central NY is having a heat wave, and we celebrated by heading to Syracuse for the day. We were about half way there when Becca started coughing, and then she started throwing up. We cleaned her up, and kept driving. She didn’t have a fever, and hadn’t been acting sick. I think it was just motion sickness.
One of the parks had an Easter egg hunt, so we headed their first. It was crazy. There were hundreds of people, all mashed together in a small area. Trying to get through the crowd to get Becca up in the front for her turn to gather a couple eggs took 5 minutes. And then the kids get 60 seconds to grab some eggs. Parents aren’t supposed to help but, of course, most do. And then, you get to go back through the same crowd to turn the eggs in. All of the kids got the same little bag of candy, whether they gathered 20 eggs or two. Becca had a lot of fun, but we probably won’t go again next year.
After that, we headed to the zoo. There were special Easter enrichment programs with a lot of the animals all day. Becca enjoyed seeing all of the animals. Most of the animals were sleeping, though. It was right around noon, it was hot, and it must have been nap time. We saw the elephants get their Easter baskets (watermelons and bunny peep marshmallows).
We finished up the zoo, and started on our way home. Becca was asleep before we were out of the city, and was out until we got to the grocery store back in town. Mark and Becca ended up meeting his mom at a park for a couple hours while I worked, and then we colored eggs later in the evening. Becca was a little hard on them– we had several crushed, thanks to her enthusiasm.
This morning, we went for breakfast with my mom and sisters, and now, I’m waiting for the potatoes to cool off so I can make potato rolls for dinner tonight. I have to get my marmalade glaze for the ham together soon, too.We still haven’t decided on a dessert for tonight. I’m debating between putting a little effort into it, and making a lemon meringue pie, or cheating and popping open the can of orange rolls. I don’t want too many more sweets around the house than necessary. Maybe cookies? And then I can freeze most of them. I’m thinking lemon cookies with white chocolate chunks. Yum.