Easter Weekend {April 4-6}

We had a fabulous Easter weekend. On Saturday evening, we went to the Oates’ along with the Whites for a little Easter Egg hunt. The Whites were kind enough to bring back some plastic eggs for us when they made a trip to the US – you can’t find regular-size ones anywhere here! They’re either tiny (can’t fit anything in them) or huge. It had been rainy all day, and was still raining, but we still headed to the park across the street and let the kids search through the mud for their eggs. The boys were pretty intent on finding their eggs; Eliza liked finding the eggs but was mostly excited about carrying the bucket on her arm – she has been really into carrying bags and purses lately. After the hunt, the kids counted their loot, then we attempted to get them to put the candy away and eat some of the yummy BBQ dinner instead. The Elders joined us for dinner and the first session of General Conference.

On Sunday, the boys snuck downstairs and saw their Easter baskets before Nate and I got up (even though I told them not to go down), and we watched the Saturday afternoon session of conference that morning. We put together our traditional Easter dinner – ham, potato casserole, rolls, and strawberry shortcake for dessert, then decided we needed to get out of the house so we met the Oates for a Sunday Walk in the Pétrusse Valley. We decided that since we had made a big meal (and plenty of it!) it would be more fun to eat Easter Dinner not by ourselves, so we had the Oates join us.

After dinner, we watched the Sunday morning session of General Conference. It was a great weekend, and I appreciated the chance to think about the resurrection of Christ, and to teach the kids about it - Bennett and Ryan seemed to really be interested in the little Easter-related lessons we had throughout the week.

 

Can you tell which row of rolls the boys helped roll?

  

The two weeks after Easter are school vacation for the kids here, and Easter Monday is also an official holiday. Nate had the day off of work, and the big celebration here is the Easter fair in downtown Luxembourg, and in a small town a few minutes away. “Eemaischen is a century-old Luxembourg Easter tradition that gets its name from the biblical city of Emmaus. You can get food and drinks of course, but the real attraction is the bird-shaped flute made out of clay (Péckvillchen), the festive atmosphere and the demonstrations of pottery, especially in the town of Nospelt (map).”

We first made our way to Nospelt, where we saw all the different birds for sale, watched the pottery demonstration, and enjoyed a waffle and frites. We then went downtown Luxembourg to see what other designs they had, and found a bird for each of the kids and a few to give as gifts. It was fun to get something that is really from Luxembourg, and we’re already looking forward to Easter Monday next year!

     

And finally…we dyed some Easeter eggs that night. Obviously a little late, but the kids didn’t care and had fun with it. We even let Eliza get her hands a little dirty.