Eggs and a Bunny
Easter Sunday was a cloudy but
festive day in Memorial Park for about 100 kids from local orphanages.
An Easter egg hunt started at 10 a.m. when a fire engine blasted its
horn. Boys and girls, ranging in age from 2 to 6, dashed throughout the
park, yelling and screaming, walking and running, and quite often,
falling down. One little girl, Amanda, found her first egg less than a
minute after the horn blew. Instead of putting it into her basket and
continuing to search for more, she sat down. Then she spent the next 10
minutes examining it, unwrapping it, and eating it piece by piece. When
she finished, she put the wrapper into her basket, wiped her hands on
her white dress, and went to hunt for another egg.
Meanwhile Jeff, one of the older boys, filled his basket to
overflowing. He asked one of the firemen to hold it for him, and then
took off running for more candy eggs. As soon as he found some, he put
them into the basket of the child closest to him. Two little toddlers
both saw a candy egg at the same time, and they both bent over to pick
it up. They banged heads, and both of them sat down bawling. A couple
of volunteer nurses picked them up and told them that everything was
going to be all right.
By 11 a.m., the search was over. Most of the kids were studying their
candy, exchanging it with others, or eating it. But then the fire
engine horn blasted again, causing three-year-old Jenny to cry. A
fireman on a bullhorn told everyone to gather around, because a special
guest had arrived.
Once everyone was settled, the Easter Bunny climbed down out of the
fire engine. The bunny was 6’6” tall. Most of the kids cheered and ran
toward him. Even Jenny stopped crying for a moment. She stared at the
bunny and at all the kids running toward the bunny; then she started
crying even harder. The Easter Bunny hugged the kids, and they hugged
him. Then the Easter Bunny sat on a fire engine step, and one by one
the kids came up, sat on his lap, and got their pictures taken. After
that, the older kids were allowed to explore the fire engine itself.
The festivities ended about 3 p.m., when the orphans climbed into the
buses for the return trip home. Most of them said they had a fun time.
Six-year-old Sara asked, “Can we do this every Sunday?” And more than
one boy asked, “Can I drive the fire engine next time?”
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الجمعة فبراير 19, 2010 6:58 pm
