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Still not too old . . .

. . . for an Easter Egg hunt!

This year, however, the girls informed me that the Easter Bunny needed to make the hunt more challenging. He (she?) sent them on a scavenger hunt a few years ago, and they thought that was really fun.

So this year, I was commissioned by the great white rabbit to organize a more challenging adventure. Sarah and Rachel had to follow a series of clues hidden inside eggs (along with chocolate, of course) until they found their Easter baskets. I think Rachel figured out the clues faster than Sarah could read them.

Each of them found their baskets in the form of new purses loaded with goodies: Cheetos and Biscotti for Rachel and chocolate and soda for Sarah. (Since Sarah gave up chocolate and soda for Lent, this is what she then had for breakfast --- along with a few Peeps!)

The EB also spoiled each of them with a COACH wristlet.

After Easter Brunch at Gramma and Grampa's, each of the grand-daughters got "closet gifts" in their Easter baskets: each received a printer's box from Gramma Mary's collection and then took turns choosing trinkets to fill it.
(Jeff received an antique baseball bat, so we didn't let him come close to getting in the picture, but he's still as cute/handsome as ever.)

Frog in the Bog

Every year the 4th grade class at Sacred Heart takes a 3-day camping trip to the Indiana Dunes. Although they sleep in cabins and have indoor plumbing including hot showers, this is still quite an adventure for some of the kids. Highlights of the trip include the solo night hike, the eight-hour day hike, running down the sand dunes, playing the "Salmon Run Game" at the lakeshore, and, of course, the campfire with silly songs and S'mores.

(Rachel is on the left in the cowboy hat.)

Everything they do from dawn until dusk for three days has an eco-lesson hidden in it somewhere, but they're having so much fun, they don't realize how much they're learning. They even look forward to kitchen duty and were sucessful in not having ANY food waste at meal time.

The last day of the trip, they met with a park Ranger. They split into groups and were each assigned a "dilemma" for which each group had to present a skit on how to solve the dilemma.

Some of the dilemmas were erosion and biochemical waste. Rachel's group had to solve the dilemma of what to do about the over-population of deer. They definitely walked away with the Emmy Award for "Deer or No Deer," a take-off of the popular (for reasons I do not understand) TV show "Deal or No Deal."

(A hunter and a frightened deer are on the left. Rachel is in the back holding one of the "suitcases.")

Brain Freeze

This is a collage that Rachel made in school a month or two ago.
I guess she's ready for ski season!

Steve and I took our first barefoot run of the season today. The water temp was about 50 and the air temp peaked at about 63, but with the boat speed at 35 - 40 mph and a wet head, it still made for one HUGE brain freeze.