Eggstravaganza 2010 aka: the egg drop

Apparently some time (recently) once my nephews had stopped going to the Easter egg hunts at Windsor park...they stopped. Like altogether stopped. I was amazed that as I googled and checked for an egg hunt around Grove City, that there appeared to be none.

Well, I quickly learned, just about every church in GC has their OWN egg hunt, and I guess parks and req. just decided to bow out. Good news for us is that mom's church (1st Baptist) was having a HUGE Eggstravaganza to kick off it's first year and Easter holiday at their new church location (ironically enough, a location my dad has owned and farmed as long as I can remember).

I called and we decided that THIS would be our egg hunt--we'd see how it went, but didn't really expect much this year. Well, it's important to note that the egg hunt was at the END of a 5k run the church was sponsoring, to help with a local food drive also, so it was BIG. People sampling sports drinks, food, bouncy things, games, it was like a carnival and there were thousands of people there.

We quickly made our way around the side and to the back of the church, following the helicopter (the main attraction) to it's launch site. We heard there'd be 8,000 eggs dropping from this helicopter and were all really excited to see how it would work.

We didn't get through many of the longer lines for food or games before the hunt, but it left plenty to do afterwards. The helicopter lifted off and then hovered around the drop zone. I was surprised at how the eggs didn't really "scatter" the way I thought they would--really more just dropped straight down. It was still a cool idea though and fun to watch. After he was all done, some ladies ran out and dumped a few more bags--in efforts to spread it out.

When they let everyone go, it was literally a free-for all. The church has never done this before, so they didn't release by ages, or in different areas, it was like a mob! (Do you SEE all those people lined up?) Luckily, we had stayed along the side, so Amara just darted right out there and grabbed a half dozen, and wanted to go after the helicopter--so we did. The pilot was so kind, he let us go right up to the door and peek in--we were pretty impressed.

Back to the carnival area--Amara found a new "favorite thing" in the sucker tree game. First, I didn't even KNOW it was a game. I just saw a tree with suckers and little kids coming up and taking one, and that was all she cared about too. (suckers are hands-down here favorite, favorite thing) She waited in like with daddy to get a balloon, Grandma Young got her some popcorn, and I think she even jumped in one of the bouncer things for a second or two.

We had some friends and family join us too--Brandy and Hayliee went, Susie and her girls were there too, as well as the Fraziers--and Uncle Matt & Aunt Steph, Aunt Kristin and Grandma and Grandpa Young, as well as MeMaw Jackie--oh and cousin G. G got a TON of eggs--he opened them up in the car and was totally impressed! They all thought it was a nice day and we hope to make it an annual event for sure!