Easter and comings and goings and Wiggling

Easter on the island was a new experience. We couldn't find our Easter decorations and baskets, so we had to make due with what was about. We dyed eggs Saturday night, and the Easter Bunny dutifully hid them around the living room. Instead of Easter Baskets we had Easter Mixing Bowls, but the Things didn't mind.

One of the yacht clubs holds an Easter egg hunt in town. They hide plastic eggs full of candy and one Golden Egg with some bigger prize (I think it's something like $50). The younger kids were on the beach this year, and the older kids were up at the playground and 'amphitheater'. Both things had a great time and found lots of eggs. No Golden Egg for us this year, though. It was a beautiful day. We went down to the beach and ran around. The Things did go into the water some, but it was pretty cold, even for them. We did have one 'tragedy' when Thing2 knocked over his bubble mix, but all in all it was a lovely day.

We also had to say goodbye to Thing1's friend Y (you remember Y from a previous post). His folks decided to start a move back to Alaska, so they cast off into the, well, I guess sunrise, since this is the west coast.

Easter, of course, means Spring Break for the school kids, and the LRSH closed its doors to give Ms. Barney a well-deserved rest. We took the opportunity to go over to LA for a weekend and see the Wiggles in their latest roadshow. We stayed in a hotel so the Things got to swim in the pool. We also stopped by the bookstore so our voracious reader (Thing1) could re-load.

One last note on the topic of comings and goings: Tuesday, I arrived at work to find a group of students hustling down to the dock to hop on a boat. It seems a pod of orcas had been spotted just off the island, and they were going to have a look. So I hurried down and asked if I could tag along. Twenty minutes later we could see dorsal fins and some tails flipping out of the water. A few times we even saw flukes. One of the students took some pictures. I'll try to get some posted, although I don't know how good they are.