Eggcelent Easter Eggstravaganza!!

Our Easter activities began the Saturday before Easter with a community-wide egg hunt in Ashland. In order to prepare for this big event, Annie, Cori, Peggy, and Sarah individually stuffed 1,000 plastic eggs with candy and then hid them the morning of the hunt with the help of Jess, James, and Harry. The egg hunt drew crowds of kids eager to get the most candy and win an Easter basket to take home. The boys grilled close to two hundred hot dogs and hamburgers, while the rest of us served up tater salad and beans.


On Good Friday, all 7 of us traveled up to Hays to join Missoula and Billings for the Eggcelent Easter Eggstravaganza! Saturday was our big Easter dinner featuring commodity ham and other assorted dishes, and then we joined the rest of the Hays community for the Easter Vigil Mass. Although the mass was a tad long (three hours), it was filled with many funny moments, thanks to the dynamic duo of Father Joseph and Sister Laura. Sunday began with an egg hunt sponsored by the Hays JVs, in which we were split up into communities to see which house could retrieve the most eggs from the house/yard. Hays ended up winning (home field advantage)! Afterward, we took a drive through Mission Canyon, and we all came out unscathed despite a minor mishap involving James, Annie, Kelly, and a large falling boulder.
Sunday evening, we did what all JVs do when they gather in large groups...made prank phone calls. After Sarah's second batch of fudge was almost wiped out and a few of us were overcome by a rare condition called "the fudgies," it was time to hit the hay. We headed out early Monday morning, and as soon as we were out of cell phone range, we got a flat tire. Jess, James, and Harry took care of everything, and we were back on the road to Ashland in no time.