Happy Easter

This is my favourite photo from the Telegraph today. It is St Peters Square, Rome, absolutely full of Easter Worshippers. (This is where Huffle proposed to me although it was a little less busy then!)

Another photo from the Telegraph. When Small saw this, he said "Is that Merlin?". This made me chuckle a lot.

Last night Small was so excited about Easter and the Egg Hunt that he couldn't sleep. He ended up coming down and playing Monopoly Deal with us at 9:30pm.

The boys came down this morning to find the Easter Bunny had left them an Easter Bucket each with a few small eggs in. They each had a toy too. I heard Smallest say "The bunny's been but he never left muddy footprints". Well thank you for that Mr Bunny, I've only just mopped it! I didn't realise we ever told the the kids there was an Easter Bunny. I thought we just gave them their eggs but they were both adamant that the Bunny came each year and left them something. I got a lovely blue felted brooch and Huffle got some Gladioili Bulbs and a Lindt Bunny.

We had a Skype chat with Grandma, Grandad, Cousin E and Cousin D whilst we were making breakfast and they were making dinner. We got ready slowly. Huffle had a game of football with Smallest, then by mid morning we made our way to the Royals.

The weather started off lovely and we all went out in tee-shirts. We sat and had a drink with them whilst we waited for the rest of the gang to turn up. Mr Royal told us the rules, paired us with our partners, gave us our clue sheets and sent us off with our baskets.

The kids (Smallest was hiding)

We started in their garden looking for the answers and finding lots of little chocolate eggs. When we finished scrambling around the garden we set off for a walk from their house to the middle of the village. We had five things to find. Ranging from dates, street names, house numbers, names of places. It was really fun. Mainly we followed each other and tried together answers. Huffle and his partner teenM won. Me and my partner, NeiceS came last - I don't know how that happened!

Smallest and his partner wearily coming back

Anyway we got to choose something from the basket of goodies. I chose some Earl Grey Tea - nice, much better than chocolate.

We then had a gorgeous home cooked meal by Mrs Royal of Strata which is an egg, tomato, bread, basil'y dish - lovely. The kids all had Macaroni Cheese. There was a big salad and lots of fresh fruit. We had Black Bottom cupcakes and Blueberry Meringue Cake for dessert. Plus some chocolate that we had found.

We had a thoroughly enjoyable day. It was all family there and yet the Royals invited us too, we felt honoured. They are such a lovely family and it was a pleasure being part of it today. We were still there at 3pm and finally took the kids home to chill for a bit.

We let Smallest's birthday balloons go up into the sky. We said we were going to send them to Uncle Dermott, and funnily enough they went East - to England.