Faux Egg Hunt

Photos and Videos: April 11, 2009
Location: Beautiful Downtown Redmond, OR

We headed downtown the saturday before Easter for a Faux Egg Hunt....you know the kind, where the eggs are just spread out on the ground and it's a chaotic free-for-all? Yeh, that kind. Actually it was a pretty cool event and we happened to see our friend Michelle with her two kids, Jace and McKenzie, down there, too. It was nice to have friends to hang out with before the big "hunt" began.

While we were waiting, Jace and McKenzie tried out their baskets as hats. Very stylish.

Jonas tried to follow suit but for some reason his square basket was not as hip. He kind of looks like a robot or something.

Oh, ooh, ooooooh.....such anticipation.

And the chaos begins!!

After less than 2 minutes all the eggs were gone in Jonas' immediate area and he was a little overwhelmed by the whole event. Most of the kids ran down to another area where someone was dumping out more eggs but Jonas just stood there nervously until we waved him in.

Need to see it for yourself? Here's a little video complete with audio of some dad (no one we know) yelling at his kid to get as many eggs as possible...no pressure or anything. You can also see how non-competitive Jonas is in this type of situation. He's not much for confrontation or conflict. I wonder where he gets that??

Jace and McKenzie were lucky enough to get some candy in their eggs.

Of the 10-12 eggs that Jonas got, he didn't get a single piece of candy. It was even better. He got 3 prize tickets and $26 "Downtown Dollars". {Downtown Dollars can be spent like cash at a bunch of businesses in downtown Redmond. So this was more like a prize for the parents...at least in the Cook household. Score!!}

McKenzie and Jace also got prize tickets and the three of them went to "Prize Central" to pick out some cool stuff. I love that Jace got the giant Easter Bonanza Basket complete with a flowery purse. His mom said the purse was the thing he really wanted in there. What can I say, the boy knows how to accessorize.

The fantastic-ness continued inside Prize Central with a Cupcake-Walk game. For Jonas any game that combines numbers, music and food is a dream come true. He pranced around those numbers for 15 minutes and was nowhere near winning, partly because he thought that he was supposed to go find the number that they called out. Finally the nice girls that were running the game kinda rigged it so that Jonas could win. He was super-excited to pick out a cupcake.

Here is some riveting footage of the Cupcake Walk. Sorry about the poor videography halfway through...I obviously can't do two things at once {talk and hold the camera straight.}

Suh-weeeet!!!