Easter 2010

Last year we went to the Easter Egg hunt that they do at the Vernal ballpark.  It was AWFUL!!  I could not believe how people behave.  This thing is supposed to be for kids, but the parents were dragging the poor children, their coats flapping behind them, as they themselves were grabbing and snatching the eggs and candy even if it meant stealing it right out of the hands of someone else.  I vowed to never go back.  This year, we went to the one in Naples instead.  It was so much better!  They had so much candy strewn on the lawn and they had large areas for each age group.  They also had bigger prizes on each area as well.  People started from all four sides, instead of being all scrunched together like cattle.  Brenan was being his normal anti-social self and decided he would rather lean up against a tree by himself than join in the fun, so there are no pictures of him.  Connor caught on pretty quick after I showed him that it was not trash all over the lawn, but he did look at me funny with the first few pieces he picked up.  It was like he could not figure out why he was doing this with my encouragement, when usually he gets told to NOT pick stuff up off the ground.  Even though there were quite a few people there, and the parents were helping, most people went for the middle where the bigger stuff was and left Connor to his own devices on the edge to pick up candy at his leisure.  I picked up a handful for Brenan so he had at least a little bit and tried to get him to come back out to the egg hunt with me, but he stayed by his tree.  When all the candy was picked up, Connor was so proud of his little basket of treats!  It was so cute!  Brenan was upset because he only got a little bit compared to what Connor got, but I told him if he wanted the rewards, he had to do it himself.  He said if I took him to the other one in town, he would do it there....  Despite the experience of last year, I agreed to take him up there.  We got to the ballpark and there weren't that many people there yet.  They had a little area for 0-3, but when I parked, Brenan insisted he was staying in the car.  I took Connor over to the truck that was handing out bags of candy, got one for Brenan as well, and then went to stand by the egghunt area.  If I would have paid more attention and realized that all that was on the lawn was real eggs, I would have just left.  When it started, the lady in charge (at least she was the one with the megaphone) said that each spot had 2 plastic eggs with writing on them, and if you got one of those you got a prize.  Everyone else just left with a bunch of eggs that had been cooked and colored who knows how long before hand...  We had gotten there early and were in the front until about 10 seconds before it started, then we had about 8 people come crowd in front of us.  Guess they felt they were more special.  They said "GO" and you would have thought those eggs were made of GOLD!  It was even worse than last year.  I almost had to punch a lady in the face when she bent over and hit Connor in the face with her butt and knocked him over.  I was hanging on to his hand so he didn't actually fall all the way down, but I was FUMING!  I picked him up by both hands and RAN to the middle of the lawn where no one had made it to yet.  I put him down and showed him the eggs.  He got 3 before he was manhandled and pushed around by all the parents trying to get their kids more than anyone else had.  There were a few other parents that I heard make comments about how ridiculous it was and I have thought seriously about planning MY OWN Easter egg hunt and having RULES!!!   I know I pissed one guy off pretty good, because his kid was after the same egg as Connor, but Connor was closer, and when the other kid (who was NOT 0-3) tried to snatch it out of his hand, he saw me standing there and I said "yeah, try it"....  needless to say, Connor got that one.  The dad was not happy and was glaring and saying how "chickens**t" it was, but I was just in the mood for him to start something, I would have enjoyed beating the living daylights out of him!