Easter Pizza

Today Ern really got scrubbed up because we had lots of pictures to take.

Big Ern was now a big 11 months old. I don't like that one bit. To make matters worse this distinguished blog author is 39 and 11 months old. The denial over here is at levels never before seen.

No sooner had we finished celebrating 11 months we turned around and started celebrating Ern's first Easter.

We put snacks in the Easter eggs as motivation but he was still only mildly interested.

It was such a nice day that we didn't want to ruin it with physical activity. We did a search for breweries with good patios and made a visit to Project 9 Brewing Company.

Later at Bizarre Brewing Ernie snagged his very first bite of pizza. Not a bad day at all.

Then at home I popped open the chocolate colomba pasquale I bought at Eataly on our New York trip. Wikipedia says "(lit. 'Easter dove') is an Italian traditional Easter bread, the Easter counterpart of the two well-known Italian Christmas desserts, panettone and pandoro."

Not too shabby.

An Adult Easter Egg Hunt

When I heard there was going to be an Easter egg hunt for adults in Tower Grove Park I was immediately on board. I went to one or two public Easter egg hunts in public parks as a child and got clobbered by giant man-children who were probably competing out of their age group and/or on performance enhancing drugs. Now though I am a full grown wolfman with a hunger. A hunger that can only be satisfied by snatching plastic eggs away from the weak. Let the games begin!

The event was a Planned Parenthood fundraiser so I felt like that was moral cover to destroy my opponents.

We scoped out the prize table while we waited for game time. Some of the eggs contained pieces of paper that could be redeemed for prizes. I like prizes.

When they blew the starting whistle I turned on the jets and started vacuuming up the treasure-filled containers. We were in a group of 5 or 6 and when I was finished berserking I didn't know where a single one of them was. There was one in the middle of a creek and I figured that such an annoyingly placed egg might have a good prize so I used a stick to fish it out.

We knew the number of eggs and the number of contestants and each person should have found 10 on average. I found 30. I had to sit down for like 30 minutes to catch my breath but it was worth it.

We didn't win any of the big prizes like Cardinals tickets but we got a few amusing little things. The best prize of all is knowing I helped send a couple of suckers home with only the taste of grass to chew on.

To the victor go the cupcake flavored unicorn cereals!