Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Egg Roll

We had a beautiful day to enjoy the Easter Egg Roll at the President's home on campus last week. 
 
We got there a few minutes early and Joshua quickly fueled up for the hunt with a cookie.

Joshua walked the perimeter of the hunt area to get a good idea of where all the eggs were "hidden."

Dave and Joshua discussed strategies to beat the other kids to the most eggs.

Mere moments before Miss. MSU rang the cow bell to start the hunt, 2 ducklings wandered into the 3-5 year old hunt zone.  Fortunately for the ducks they made their way our of the egg laden area just in time to be safe.

Joshua's strategy: Don't stop for all the eggs at the top of the field...run as fast as you can away from the other kids and start picking up eggs further into the field of play.

Joshua's strategy worked so well we asked him to stop picking up eggs about 20 seconds into the hunt (the whole egg hunt lasted no more than 30 seconds) to ensure that all the other kids were able to "find" some.

The ducklings may have escaped harm during the actual hunt but didn't get away in time to avoid numerous photo ops with sticky handed kids.

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