I took E to an egg hunt this morning. My friend and her almost 3 year old twins came along too. We were out numbered 3-2. It started at 1000 this morning at a local park. It was a fairly easy hunt. The eggs were "hid" on the outfield of a baseball field. So about 10 minutes later all the eggs were found. It was crowded and since we had little kids, I suggested we ride back up the road to another small playground. My friend agreed and off we went. It was a small playground with a few swings. We got there around 1030-ish or so. E and my friends son A played on the slides while my friends daughter H preferred the swings. I took a few pics and they played and played. Did I mention I drank a mug of coffee on the way to the egg hunt? Well I did. You know what comes next. I start looking for a bathroom and my friend and I see a man on the outfield of the baseball field tossing out eggs. So we figure theres gotta be an egg hunt. E and I head off to the bathroom. As I come out I pass the man and ask what time the egg hunt begins. He replied 1200. It was about 1110. I asked my friend if she was up for another hunt. We decided to stay and the kids kept playing. About 1/2 hour later more kids were coming to the play area. Some kids were rude and knocked H down so we headed to the car to cool off for a few minutes. Finally the egg hunt started. All 3 kids got a good many eggs. When it was over, the man who was hiding the eggs said they had refreshments. Being the bad mother that I am, I didn't think to bring any water with us. I only planned on one egg hunt, not 2! So we got in line so I could get E something to drink. I had a little cash and would have gladly bought her something to drink. Then we saw they had chips and hot dogs. In my mind I was tallying up how much it would be for a hot dog, chips and drink for us both. Then a lady behind us asked the man in charge how much the hot dogs were. Imagine my surprise when he said everything was free! That was so wonderful! It was a blessing in disguise because we had a lot of bills due this week. Although I got paid Thursday, it was mostly gone by Friday. What was left over we didn't need to be wasting on frivolous things like eating out since we still needed to get gas and things. I had told my friend when we got to the playground that if we went anywhere it had to be free and we just laughed about it. So I guess you could look at it as having a prayer answered, even though it was a want and not a need. How cool is that? 
