Good Friday or a Great Friday?

Every now and then, mum gets an email inviting her to go somewhere interesting.  Occasionally we get an invitation to go along and share in the fun too.  Good Friday was one of the days when we got to share the fun and go along to the Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt at Werribee Park Mansion thanks to some free tickets that were sent to us from Cadbury.

We packed up our picnic and headed out to Werribee Park to share in the fun.

I couldn't believe just how many people were there having fun.  Rather than pick out a picnic spot straight away we decided to do a lap of the entire place to see just what we could do.  We could have gone on the rides but seeing that I didn't go on the rides at the school fete the other day, I didn't think I would go on the rides here either.  Instead of getting ride tickets, I negotiated with mum and dad to go exploring inside Werribee Mansion.

After the tour, I could scope out most of the picnic from the mansion balcony.

The view from the balcony

After exploring the mansion, we still weren't ready for our picnic lunch so we went exploring along the sculpture walk instead.

Fun in the Meccano Truck

The walk, and climbing all of the sculpture, made us work up a thirst so we stopped for a drink.

Drink time

By then, we were starting to get a little peckish so we headed back to the main picnic area.  We had just enough time to scoff some delicious hot corn before it was time to line up ready for our Easter Egg Hunt.  Milla was up first and then finally, the final Easter Egg Hunt of the day, it was my turn.

Ready to run

Every time I thought that the hunt was over, the Oompa Loompas (that was the all the wonderful people who volunteered to help out at the Easter Egg Hunt) kept scattering more eggs out for us to find.   I'm in the middle of the madness, scooping up dozens of eggs!

Scrounging for eggs

The crawling around the ground was well worth it, I think I found a few million!

Chocolate goodness

It was an awesome day that was there to raise money for the Royal Children's Hospital.  I have been lucky enough to not have had to visit the new hospital, but I have been to the old RCH a few times (this was one of my visits) and I am happy to say that they did a fantastic job of fixing me.  They did such a great job that I took $20 out of my money box to help make some other kids feel better when they are stuck in hospital.

Giving back

Thanks for inviting me and my family to join in the fun of the Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt.
Love AJ Pickle


PS - Mum wanted me to let you all know that we were given free tickets to go to the Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt.  We didn't have to blog about our day there but I wanted everyone to know how much fun I had, and to brag about how many eggs I found!  Cadbury also sent us this delicious hamper that mum still won't let us eat yet.

Chocolate Carnage

Guess what happens when the day that mum decides to be Easter bunny and go shopping for Easter eggs and then hides said eggs from us in her study and this day happens to be a freaky hot day? Chocolate carnage.

Manky melted chocolate deliciousness :-)

As a consequence, dad is forced to do a second Easter egg shop. Of course when mum said Easter eggs, she really meant a couple of decent sized eggs or rabbits, ones that the famed Easter Bunny could deliver to the ends of our beds when we are sleeping. Naturally, dad simply heard Easter eggs so that is what he bought - communication fail!

As a result, we will now have eleventy billion hunting eggs to find on Sunday, as well as munching on the formerly melted now somewhat squished-out-of-shape deliciousness!

Being on chocolate day,
Love AJ and Milla

Easter

I'm still not sure if the Easter Bunny is real or not so last night, as mum was tucking me in and saying good night, I asked if she thought the Easter Bunny would leave some footprints for us again.

Whoever the Easter Bunny is, they did leave footprints all over the dining table!  AJ pointed out that they weren't real rabbit footprints but I don't care, they look pretty cool and they also come with about a bazillion Easter eggs that I keep finding in the strangest of places!


I hope you have a wonderful chocolatey Easter too,
Love Princess George






PS - do you like the place name cards that I made for everyone for our special Easter feast last night?

To Believe It Or Not?

AJ and I have been talking and we have decided that we don't think that Easter Bunny, Santa or the Tooth Fairy are real.  There have been a lot of little clues that would suggest that it is really mum and dad and all the other grown-ups pretending that they are them.

Take the Santa charade for instance.  Why is it that Santa only knows what you want for Christmas if you write a letter to him and post it.  Oh and why do the letters that were 'posted' to Santa turn up stashed in the back of the bookcase?  Now we know that if Santa was really magical like everyone says he is, we wouldn't have to write down what we want in the first place, he would just know.  They say that he is magical enough to know who was naughty or nice so surely he would also remember what things we really wanted!  And why do kids who are naughty all the time, other kids not us, still get Christmas presents?

Also, why do we do a big toy clean-out every year before Christmas to donate toys to kids who might not get any presents.  If Santa really was real, he would give presents to everyone, especially the kids whose families weren't rich enough to buy them heaps of toys, right?  Surely the kids who don't have heaps of toys deserve more presents from Santa than kids that have heaps of stuff.

So there you have it, a few of the reasons why we don't think that Santa is real and if Santa isn't real then why would any of the others, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy be real either?  The thing is, we might just keep pretending for a while longer because it sometimes pretending is fun, besides it is Easter soon and we really love chocolate.
Love AJ and Milla

Chocolate Goodies

Of course Nanny and Poppy and Aunty Sharn came to celebrate Easter with us and of course they gave us even more chocolates.  

I finally found something good about having a broken arm!

Love AJ Pickle

Happy Easter

The Easter Bunny visited us last night.  When we woke up this morning there was a chocolate rabbit on our beds.  Before mum and dad had time to come downstairs, we snuck downstairs. Look what we found when we got there!

mmm... Chocolate for breakfast - YUM!

There were Easter Eggs hidden everywhere.

I hope everyone else gets chocolate for breakfast too.

Love AJ and Milla

Another Hunt

Although we have already had an Easter Egg Hunt today, this afternoon we went down to Pirate Park to have ANOTHER Easter Egg Hunt.  This time it was an Egg Hunt for lots of kids who live in Kensington.  I think there may have been even more kids this year than there were last year.

I was a little worried that I wouldn't find many eggs.  I ran really fast and put all of the eggs that I found into my sling so I didn't have to keep running back to the basket to drop the eggs back.

I really shouldn't have worried about not finding any eggs, look at how many Easter Eggs we all found!

Love AJ Pickle

An Egg Hunt in Circle Park

Last night AJ went for a sleep over at his friend Tiger's house, so Tiger's big sister Poss came for another sleep over with me.  We had a great time together, but Poss couldn't stay at our house all day long because her family is going camping.  

When her mum came to pick her up to go camping, she heard someone say that they saw the Easter Bunny in Circle Park hiding chocolate eggs.  We all ran over to the park to see if we could find any eggs.

We all found some eggs, even Dad who fell asleep on the grass and Paddy who can only just walk!

It was great finding Easter Eggs in our park, but soon we are heading to another Easter Egg hunt in Pirate Park.  I can't wait!

Love Princess George

Cuddles

We went to Grandma's house for Easter afternoon tea.  Afternoon tea was almost healthy - fruit salad, vegemite sandwiches and bun, with a side serving of Easter eggs of course.

As well as eating and having another Easter egg hunt, we played with Roger.  I think Roger was a little worn out from helping the Easter bunny last night.  

Roger didn't really want cuddles.

Luckily my littlest cousin Owen wanted cuddles instead.

Happy Easter everyone.

Love Princess George

Brunch

After having a healthy breakfast of Easter eggs, I decided that I should make a fruit salad for everyone to eat with brunch.  

I made it all by myself.

Look - grapes, banana, apple, tomato and carrots - yum!

Mum cooked bacon and eggs for us too, so as we waited for the rest of our brunch, Milla and I snacked on some more chocolate eggs!

Hmmm, chocolate for breakfast AND brunch, I wonder what we will have for afternoon tea at grandma's house?

Love AJ Pickle

Chocolate For Breakfast

Today must be one of the best days of the year - the only day that we are allowed to have chocolate for breakfast (in bed)!

The Easter Bunny visited our house last night.  When we were asleep, she left a chocolate bunny on our beds, ready for breakfast.  Then she hid more eggs downstairs.  This year the Easter Bunny hid chocolate eggs AND eggs filled with little toys - we must have been really good kids!

We hope that everyone else gets to have chocolate for breakfast too!

Love AJ and Milla

Hunting

The Kensington Kids had their second annual Easter Egg Hunt today.  Pirate Park is the perfect place to go hunting for chocolate treasures.

There were heaps of kids, and even more Easter treats.

I found so many Easter Eggs that I ran out of pockets and hands to carry my eggs. 

Hunting for Easter Eggs if great fun.

Love Princess George

Hot Chocolate

We went on an Easter Egg Hunt today at the Fitzroy Gardens.  There were giant rabbits and little eggs everywhere we looked.  It was so much fun finding chocolate in the gardens, the only problem was that it was a hot day - the eggs had melted before we found them.  

When we picked them up they smooshed into a chocolatey mess.  

I think that mum was the only person to eat all of our melted chocolate!

Love AJ Pickle

Breakfast in Bed

We we woke up this morning, the Easter Bunny had left an easter egg in a cup on the end of our bed. We both grabbed an egg and waited quietly until the clock said 7. Then we ran all the way through the house to show Nanny and Poppy. On holidays we always wake Nan and Pop first, but mum and dad came to see what we were doing anyway.

We were even allowed to eat breakfast in bed. OK, so it wasn't our bed, but is was a bed and we did eat and share our chocolate. Easter must be the only day that we are allowed to have chocolate for breakfast!

AJ looking into the matter - Chocolate for breakfast?


Milla enjoying a 'once a year chocolate breakfast'

It didn't take long for Aunty Sharn to wake up and come to see what all the commotion was about. She gave us a giant rabbit each, and then Nan and Pop gave us another chocolate rabbit each.

Just when we thought that there couldn't possibly be more chocolate around, we decided to get up. We wandered into the lounge and found that the Easter Bunny had left more eggs. They were in the kitchen and in the garden too.

There were Easter eggs hidden everywhere!
Mmmm, delicious.
Love AJ and Milla

A Really GOOD Friday

Today is called Good Friday. I don't really know why it is called Good Friday. I think it is a good Friday because we all went to Pirate Park for a picnic.

As we were eating our picnic, the Easter Bunny must have been running through the park. I think that he forgot to do up his egg bag and hundreds of eggs fell out. We didn't mind, we all raced around the park looking for chocolate eggs to share - yum!



I wish all Fridays could be as much fun as today!
Love Princess George