"Kevin, do you want to go to Albertson's for their Easter parade?" Um, no. But go we did, and we arrived in time for the 9:00 A.M. festivities to begin. The "parade" was really a guided tour around the grocery store with stations set up here and there staffed by other children. The stations and what the young staffers did at each:
- distribute plastic grocery bags stuffed with Easter-themed coloring sheets
- hand out apples
- hand out cans of soda pop
- hand out bags of corn tortilla chips
- have parents register their children for a drawing, the prize for which was a gigantic Easter basket stuffed with candy, toys, and other treats (we haven't gotten a phone call, so we probably didn't win)
- hand out cookies
- paint a pink lipstick bunny nose and brown mascara whiskers on the children's faces
- hand out plastic eggs with Tootsie rolls in them
- hand out Easter candy
- take a photo of the children posing on a bench with a gigantic, living, adult-sized Easter bunny
Susan bought a few more items for tomorrow's Easter meal while I accompanied our three bunnies along the route, clearly marked by an orderly series of paper Easter eggs colored by local school children and taped to the floor like footprints to guide us along the path. The girls ate their chips and apples with dinner when we got home, and Suzanna and Abigail asked permission to drink their cans of pop (Pepsi and Mountain Dew--they're not usually given caffeinated soda, so they felt especially liberated when we granted them permission to drink it today) (Hillary had non-caffeinated orange soda--no problem there).
There was a little disappointment when we arrived for the Easter parade only to find that we were the ones on parade--no floats or horses or fire trucks were on hand to go past us for our review. Because the temperature this morning was around 20 degrees, that's probably just as well.
The indoor event, with its guarantee of treats with minimum effort, seemed preferable to the egg hunt in the park -- 20 degree weather and no idea what sort of treats one might end up taking home.
ReplyDeleteWhat a different idea! A parade of sorts in the grocery store?! Never heard of that! As long as the kids have fun, I guess. I'm sure they enjoyed even that....as opposed to going to the cold park!
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