Spreading Easter Cheer

Again, I haven't blogged since the dawn of time. But I have been extremely busy.

Mel and I decided to have an Easter Egg Hunt the day before break (today). We went to Wal-Mart and got 1,000 plastic easter eggs, and then to the Dollar Tree to get enough candy to fill them all. We spent the rest of our Saturday loading and closing- so much easier said than done- about one quarter of our eggs. Sunday we spent all afternoon and evening finishing up. By Tuesday we had a plan. And today we had a success.

On the way to school this morning, I stopped by Mel's house and we loaded four full black garbage bags of eggs into my trunk. I played the theme to the new James Bond movie all the way to the school, even though I got made fun of for it. Mel got into the school first while I drove up to an out-of-the-way entrance, where I pulled over and put on my flashers. Teachers were driving by, and I don't know what they thought when they saw a hooded student carrying stuffed black garbage bags into the school in the pouring rain. I'm glad I wasn't arrested.

By the time I had unloaded, parked the car, made it into the building and into our little hallway, people were already in action. Six people were shoveling tons of eggs into Wegman's bags and running off to various parts of the school. I put on my white bunny ears headband and went to work. I must have covered a quarter of the school with a couple hundred easter eggs in 15 minutes. Any time a teacher approached me, I handed them an egg, said "Happy Easter!" and was off.

It wasn't a massive operation; it wasn't a brilliant prank, and people had forgotten it by second block. But the handfull of people that asked increduously "Wait, you did that?!" and the phone call summoning me to my AP's office, and the 40 minutes spent scarping crushed jelly beans off the floor instead of being in french class made everything worthwhile. Until the first classes started, everyone was talking about it- how many eggs there were, how much it must have cost, whose idea it could have been. It may not sound all that impressive to you. But walking down the hall today with my bunny ears and bagfull of eggs, I got my 15 minutes of fame.