Less than Twelve Parsecs

Our family generally celebrates two Easter holidays every year. This first one, the American holiday, got a bit of everything: Easter Bunnies Egg Dyeing Egg Painting, and  An Easter Egg Hunt variation: bags of treats with chocolate eggs inside, due to a timely lack of the usual plastic egg containers at the store where the Bunny stopped for groceries. Later that day, Mara properly referred to this as an " Easter Bag Hunt ".  Anyhow, here are some of our fun moments! We made hard-boiled eggs. Some we painted with little brushes. And some others we dyed by leaving them in little cups with dye.  It took a looooong time, so we had a lot of conversations. Then we went on the trail of the Easter Bunny, whom kitty had seen hiding things around our yard.  We found 12 surprise baggies with chocolate eggs, bunny crackers and some small toys. Gaius discovered and picked up two of them.  Daddy found two as well, but let Mara do ...

Nope, it wasn't Easter. And you wouldn't be hunting bunnies for Easter anyways. It was a Sunday afternoon, and we were visiting the farm animals again. A white bunny hopped around the chickens that were loose in the main area. Not in bunny-space for sure. Given the reports from our neighbors that coyotes casually stroll down our streets at night, we were quite worried that the bunny might be in danger if we left it out. So we hunted. Elena spent about 10 minutes jumping over fences to get to the bunny. Google+ decided that this was a particularly dramatic moment, and created this HDR work of art automatically so we are sharing it here: We finally cornered it after a long slow chase, and Elena grabbed it by the ears to make sure she doesn't get scratched. Some bunnies are good at putting up a fight! But this one turned out to be the softest sweetest rabbit, it settled in her arms and waited for his fate to be decided. Don't worry about that red evil eye, ...