Easter Weekend

Easter has come and gone for our last time on Pohnpei. We kicked it off a little early with a compound easter egg hunt on Thursday afternoon. All of Jaxon and Indi's little island playmates came over to enjoy a few hours on the compound. Nic did a great job on her home-made easter hot-cross buns.

After the initial excitement of all being together again wore off they all sat down for story time.

Jamie told the story of Easter and kept the kids captivated the entire time.

Then, after a quick swim, it was into the important stuff - the egg hunt.

Not bad Indi. Especially when you get the adults to do the 'finding' for you.

All ages turned up and no one went home dissappointed.

The victors go the spoils.

Now it's time to see what's inside these things.

Easter Saturday was a quiet day at home, Sunday morning was off to church. The kids had been practising in Sunday School for the last month or so and loved singing their songs and saying their lines in front of everyone.

Jaxon is an old-hand at this now, three years in a row.

It was Indi's first go and after a false start it was all engines running.

Songs with actions, can't beat it.

Sunday afternoon saw us at the church easter egg hunt. First of all the kids (read parents) had to made their own egg bags.

The older kids showed up which was great to see, especially when the tunes fired up.

Before the egg hunt the church leaders put on some games for all ages.

Something to do with running with a cup of water and putting it in a bucket at the other end. Of course both teams tied for first place. As you should as that age.

Next was dropping a peg into a bottle. No computer games or tv to keep kids occupied here.

The good ole egg and spoon race.

Next came the easter egg hunt. Mirmi is quite a loud (but lovely) Pohnpean lady. When I was asked to help hide the easter eggs I took it upon myself to seize the opportunity to keep her quiet, for a little while at least.

Mirmi's friends thought it was the funniest thing ever.

Hiding easter eggs, island style.

The boy comes through. We ended up 'sharing' some of his eggs to the kids that didn't have so many.

Next it was a game for the adults. The women had to husk a coconut and run it up to the men.

I have tried this and shared Nic's pain, it isn't as easy as the locals make it look.

Then the men had to get all the capra out of the coconut. Pretty cool. Lucky I had Indi to supervise operations.

Dinner was served and after dinner we also celebrated Epel's 60th birthday.

Our last Easter on island. A sad day when you start to think like that, ever day is the last day at the moment and we are trying our hardest to cram things in and continue to make the most of every day.