Easter in Egypt is a bit different from what we are used to....first of all, Easter Sunday is a normal day of the week (holy day is Friday). We used my "Having a Christ-centered Easter" book (I really like it---Deseret book by Joe and Janet Hales). We began our celebration on Palm Sunday (which was a school day of course) and talked every night about Jesus and what that day was like in during the last week of His life on Earth. We had a special passover feast, complete with bitter herbs, paschal lamb, wine of the vine (grape juice) and unleavened bread. We also ate other foods that would have been eaten during Jesus's time. We had olives, feta cheese, flat bread, yogurt, nuts, apricots....you get my point:) It was good. Good Friday we had church and then on Saturday we had our family traditional egg hunt inside the house. There was no place to do it outside and we are still finding little chocolate eggs every day, so that is a bonus to doing it that way:) Saturday evening, we attended a church dinner/get-together. Easter Sunday, Brent had work (they give him eastern Easter off, which is this coming Sunday) so we all slept in, went swimming, played in the sand, skyped with family and talked about the Resurrection that evening after our dinner of fish and honeycomb (ok, it was only honey, but I did try) and couscous. We like Easter, but will have to adjust to Sunday being like a Monday!
We are hoping to get our car this week....yipee! We got our Egyptin driver licenses this last week (and yes, bribery was used and was an acceptable form of policy!!) and both Brent and I have been driving a work van a bit. Brent is a little more stressed when he gets home from work each day now that he is the one driving the carpool!
Some pictures attached of the events and such. Love to all.
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Okay, Amiee, you almost sound like a Catholic, or Jewish, or something! :-) We also had a Sader Meal with the whole works, but a goat roast instead of lamb (It was in the freezer). Then of course, we were at Church a bunch during the Triduum. Two asthmatics acted up, so we had to split up our actual Easter celebration, but it worked. Clare now has the chicken pox which is actually really, really good. I'm missing you, though, for all the little funny comments from my kiddos. I'll just leave one which, of course, came from Maggie. After receiving her tacky, plastic, pink high heels and basket of candy from the Easter Bunny, she sighed a most contented (almost) groan and said, "Ahhhhh, high heels and candy..."
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