Easter Sunday

Well actually this post begins on Saturday night, when I colored 24 eggs in what seemed like a really long time!  I double, even triple dipped some of the eggs to perfection.  Okay, maybe I worked too hard at it... but that's me!

I had an audience the whole time :) 

So Sunday morning Danny and I went to Church with my mom, then picked up the Grandmas on our way home.  We had the ham in the oven, and we were ready to eat!!  Cerena, Greg, and Greg's parents shortly arrived and we ate and drank and ate some more... so good!

After a really yummy lunch we went next door to continue celebrating with our neighbors Bleu, Noell, and Mia.  The sun was out, and its was the perfect day to be sitting around on a porch eating Angel Food Cake, fresh fruit, and Flourless Chocolate Cake with a glass of wine.  (Notice that wheel barrel of nicely colored eggs!!)

Noell and my mom had set up an Easter Egg hunt in our two back yards for the 5 kids (yes, we are considered kids in this scenerio..)  What we didn't realize until we got there, was that in addition to over a hundred eggs with candy and prizes, they also hid 2 cases of Corona, Victoria, and Pacifico!  (Bleu and Noell work for Corona...)  Some eggs were designated for Mia, and all of the others were fair game between the rest of us.  We had wayyy too much fun being competetive searchers.  In the end, we came away with a lot of great prizes, chocolate, beer, wine, etc........  Can't complain :)

Announcing, the Trivia Newton Johns!

   

Last weekend we tried our hardest to win at a trivia night fundraiser, but our efforts were more focused on the "Best Theme" category... and we didn't quite take the prize :(  I thought we made a good effort though; we made our costumes/props in one day, and the headlights even worked!!

Oh well, it was fun anyways, and of course it was nice to be in good old Plainfield in support of a local foundation; Thomas Marciniek Memorial Foundation.

Plainfield Irish Parade

Last Sunday was the ever-growing St. Patrick’s Day Parade in downtown Plainfield.  We were there for the whole shebang and it was so much fun! 

It really started on Saturday night by preparing the “fleet” of scooters and Honda Passports.  Early Sunday morning we were at the garage cleaning and tinkering our rides, and then delivering a couple scooters to some of those directing the parade.

Lining up at Plainfield Central High School (where I attended when it was PHS) the number of floats, trucks, businesses and bands were shocking!  While the main street in Plainfield (Lockport St) started to fill in with spectators, all I could think of was our first St. Patrick’s Day parade.  It consisted of 1 float, 3 trucks and a whole lot of bicycles.  My mom and then business partner thought it would be fun to have an Irish Parade of our own, a week before the actual day.  Somehow over the past 12 years, the parade has grown a little each year. 

 

A fairly new addition to the event is the afternoon Pubcrawl!  Myself and about 40 others “crawled” from one pub to the next, winding our way through downtown Plainfield.  Consisting of 6 bars, we had a great time… facilitating a raffle drawing at each stop.  Danny and Nisi quickly grew familiar with the megaphone, sometimes a little to comfortable with yelling into it.  Haha.