Buona Pasqua!

For Easter, several families got together for a picnic and Easter egg hunt. Thankfully, the weather was beautiful, and we had a great time!

Emily and her friend Grace all dolled up for Easter.

The guys enjoying beer and fellowship.

The hunt is on!

Watching the hunt.

Checking out the loot.

After the hunt.

In Italy, rather than put out Easter baskets for the Easter Bunny, the children are given large, hollow chocolate eggs with prizes and toys inside. They range from about 6-9 inches high, to really enormous ones 3-4 feet high! The eggs are usually wrapped in fancy paper, and I have seen some wrapped in clear cellophane with writing in icing on the outside.

Emily with her Italian Easter egg. I neglected to take a picture of it before she unwrapped it, but it was a Disney Princess egg, and had a Belle comb inside. The eggs are very similar to the Kinder eggs that Emily enjoys all year round. Kinder eggs are hollow chocolate eggs about 3 inches high with little toys inside. Emily has a very large collection of Kinder egg toys.