Monday, March 24, 2008

a snake, a rat and some eggs

Dominique petting the snake.







Ivan petting the rat.







Dominique and her egg bounty.







Here are some of the promised pictures from this weekend. There are more pics and videos to come- and here I had been telling Brian that we've really slowed down with the picture taking. I guess we've slowed down in doing different things, but not this weekend. It was a time of discovering, friendships and celebration.


You are more than likely familiar with this tradition of finding eggs, but not necessarily the next one...



This is a hispanic tradition. There are special eggs called "cascarones". They are real, cleaned out egg shells with a chunk taken off the top, painted or died inside and out, filled with confetti and patched with a piece of gift tissue paper glued to cover the hole. The idea is to smash the egg on someone's head, but Ivan and Dominique were so careful in their "smashing", it was sweet.

2 comments:

Nana said...

Wow I'm impressed Dominique and Ivan. A snake and a rat! Nana grew up around canyons and cactus. Our parents warned us about the dangers of snakes. We had rattlesnakes that slithered the area. I guess that explains my thing with snakes.

Ian said...

Sounds like they are having fun.