AWWW MONDAY - EASTER WEEKED APRIL 19

 

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WEEKEND 

On Saturday we celebrated Easter together with the staff's children. A blow-up castle was set up on the lawn. In the morning, Jeanine had prepared pancake batter, enough for an army! Benches and chairs were set up, and two nurses tried out the rubber castle, jumping around in it, laughing!

The party started at 2 p.m.! The children and their parents invaded the huge park lawn and straight into the rubber castle ! After they'd had jumped enough, and the grandmothers watched and cheered them on, laughing, the whole gang was let loose to hunt for eggs. Our Easter Bunny ran around, with a nurse hiding underneath. I didn't know who that was until the end!

Here are pictures of the truly successful Easter party!

The pancakes didn't cook quick enough, to satisfy all the little but also bigger once !

Monday I think we all recovered, we had been so lucky with the weather for our Easter egg hunting, because on Monday it was cold and grey. I finished sending my Easter cards on Whatsapp, and in the afternoon we throw balls at each other and had a lot of fun and laughed a lot. Normally you should shout the name of the person who had to catch the ball and she or he had to catch it, but that only happened very seldom, the balls flew in all directions, also on heads, noses or glasses ! Then we had our coffee and the good Brussels waffels.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Once upon a time when the world was normal, in the Wolvendael park in Brussels, kids could look for Easter eggs. They were offered by the municipality ! Unfortunately for the poor kids this event had been cancelled due to the lockdown rules which had become more restricted ! 

 

 

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Our weekly "conversation" with Toby was rather short, he was very busy with other things and had no patience at all to see his Nonna and Nonno's faces. We finally got a smile after Daddy probably had encouraged him to do so. Of course for a two year old telephone conversations are rather boring, I think when he is in his teens he will have the phone stuck to his ears !

We were supposed to go to Amsterdam to celebrate Easter together, but as we both were sick and still not running at 100 % we preferred to stay home.



I had no energy this year to take out our Easter decoration and decorate the house, the only thing I did was buying this couple and put it on top of the TV set.



As we stay home we "babysit" Dominique's little birdie. I think it likes our guest room very much because since its arrival it has laid two eggs on which it is sitting now. Mr. G. hopes for a nice omelette, and our cats try to get into the room where the birdie twitters ! Apparently it is a member of Twitter.



Ilona and I are suffering from this long lasting winter and were really color hungry. So on Saturday we went to a Garden store and did a little walk through there at least it was warm ! After having bought some potting soil and two little cat statues for our garden, we went to her house and had tea in front of the burning stove !  Fortunately we don't have a "White Easter" !

This night we were switched to summer time and had to get up one hour earlier. I don't care for an hour I don't even realize. We have a second animal to feed, our neighbor's cat Chouchou because they went on holidays to France. Of course Chouchou doesn't care about summer time either and was rather happy when I brought her breakfast so early ! As soon as I open the garage door she already sits in the middle of the street and shows me the way to her bowl !

On Easter Sunday we had 0°C (32 F) which increased to 4° (37 F) a tropical temperature. Nevertheless I wanted to go photohunting as I run out of pictures  ! I dressed myself for an expedition to the North Pole and drove to Brussels.



Brussels City had organized an Easter Egg hunting for the kids in the Royal Park of Brussels. The park is just in front of the Royal Palace. Despite the cold weather there were lots of tourists around. The Park was packed with children and their parents, the egg hunting had just finished and I heard that 30 thousand eggs had been distributed ! There were lots of activities for the children and stalls with food, and even seats with tables but it was far too cold to sit there ! I made a very quick tour and then hurried back to my car, where I put the heating on a maximum ! After not even two hours I was back home and downloaded the pictures. The rest of the day we spent watching TV and rested.

I think it was the first time that I saw the park without any green leaves or even a little sign of a sprout. It still looked like deep winter, now on a first of April !

MY WORLD - Easter Egg Hunting

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Each year at Easter, Waterloo city organizes an Easter egg hunt in the city park. I had never been there, because when our son was little it didn't exist yet.



I don't know why they had put these sun chairs in the grass, it was a cold (5°C, 41 F), wet and grey Easter weather and I was convinced that there wouldn't be a lot of people, if ever



But I was wrong



even very wrong ! The parc was full !






A radio station and the chocolate brand mark Milka had sponsored the hunting.





hundred and hundreds of children were looking for eggs !



A lonely stroller parked under the tree



A living chicken greated the children



and then the hunting was over and everybody left quickly for home or into a café to warm up !