What does this have to do with Easter?

Today we spent some sanity-saving time out of the house at the annual Easter Egg Festival. As it turned out, there was not a lot of Easter stuff at this event. The big winners in Liam's book:

* The police car, fire truck and ambulance parked at the entrance for the kiddies to get into, climb on and gawk at
* The Schneiders mascot (it was an elephant) - he spent half the day getting up close to this guy, and then when given the opportunity to say hello, would get all bashful and hide behind Chad's leg
* The pony rides were pretty cool
* Chaos in general.

Seriously, we got there 15 minutes after the event started, and it was already packed with thousands of kids and just as many parents yelling at them. We might have stayed longer, but the sheer numbers were driving me bananas. I didn't know that many kids even live around here.

Liam didn't seem interested in the Easter Egg hunt, having his face painted or the petting zoo (complete with super cute bunnies)... so we made an early exit. It was probably just as well. The pony rides were set up as one of those things where the ponies are all attached to a central mechanism and walk in a circle. Chad walked alongside Liam to make sure he didn't freak out. He took off his glasses on account of the snow and stuck them in his pocket... sure enough, when we left the pony rides, his glasses were gone. Somehow he managed to get back to the ponies and retrieve his glasses off the grass, still in one piece - what are the odds of that, given that these ponies are pounding the exact same ground over and over again? I think we pushed our luck enough for one day.

And speaking of pushing our luck... no, no baby today. :)