Easter Monday fun!

As the Monday after Easter was a holiday here in Niger, we decided to celebrate with a little fun. The kids got to do some painting. They chose to make painted eggs. Striped eggs, abstract eggs, polka dot (Rachel) eggs, and a space egg (Samuel)with stars were some of the offerings.

Alan organized an egg hunt for all of the kids on the compound, and a potluck followed. The egg hunt was a huge success! There was a collective pooling of candy and plastic eggs, and the poor confused chicken even laid a few silver (aluminum foil) ones too! Alan has lots of experience finding eggs, as his mother still has an egg hunt every year for his adult neice and nephew. So with the experience of discovering eggs under his belt, he was an excellent egg stasher. The kids had fun, and even got a bit of extra candy in the end (a chicken can only lay son many eggs in one day!) No chocolate was to be found, as it would have been in liquid state anyway! My contribution to the potluck was the cake. Which was a hit with kids and adults as well. If you look closely, the picture of the cake was taken in my large deep freezer, where it was kept until dessert time, as the temperature soared into the 115F range. Icing doesn't have a chance in that kind of heat!