Wow. Today was crazy.
We heard about what we thought was going to be a pretty cool Easter event put on by one of the churches across the Bay and we figured we'd go check it out. Little did we realize that half of the Gulf Coast also heard about it (courtesy of a news story) so many THOUSANDS of people showed up! Apparently, this was the first year the church held it away from the church grounds, and I don't think they anticipated how big is was going to be!
What was it? A 100,000 Easter Egg Drop at Battleship Park. A drop, you say? Yes... a drop... the eggs were dropped from the sky by helicopter! Included amongst the candy-filled eggs were ones containing money ($50 and $100 bills), and slips of paper that could be redeemed for some pretty great prizes like an XBox Kinect and even tickets to Disney World.
Unfortunately, because it was way bigger than they thought it would be, it wasn't that well-organized, but it was fun to watch Easter eggs fall out of the sky! Michaela managed to nab 4 eggs (all with candy, no big prizes for us), then we looked at the horses and got out of there as fast as we could before they had the mad rush in the big field for the older kids. I think this is one event we'll skip if it happens again next year, but it was an experience!
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