Rogers' Haiti Adventure 2013/2014: Sunday (Easter) and a little extra from Saturday 30th

Yes, I know I am writing this on Monday and no on Easter itself...

Easter was a BUSY day!! :)

We did not attend mass today... In fact, none of the kids did because it was going to be such a crowded service - and did I mention, long....! Instead we hung out with the kids, talked about what Easter means, played, and got ready for the much awaited Easter Egg Hunt... Dennis covers this quite well in his post so I won't duplicate it!

First let me take a step back to some Saturday stuff...

Petoucheka enjoyed trying to read Dennis a book! I am not sure if she reads Kreyol or French... but she was having fun!

Guess who else likes Good-n-Plenty!?!? :)

The kids were playing well together!

Teaching Petoucheka some English from the Kreyol to English Picture Dictionary! :)

And Prof. Enoch showed up too!

We had another art showing and JR helped us with a little Kreyol along with Enoch.

More playground time!!!

Beautiful girls...!

Soine liked me dancing in the rain with her!

Ben made a friend, Wesley (just like his cousin back home), and was impressed because he had a coconut, was able to open it, ate it (Ben was good and said, "No, Thank you."), and gave Ben the shell... He made a boat out of it. Cool!

Let's see... pictures of paintings and Petoucheka's new bunny... wonder who had my camera this time? lol!

We ended our day with Coca and Haitian cola... the kids were in heaven!

OK, OK, OK... back to Sunday... sorry. :)

We got up and created the Easter Egg preparation center. It was fun but took a long time to fill 200+ eggs. It was worth it too... the kids loved the hunt and the candy!

Next we had our breakfast - always a fun experience in culture, language, and people!! This time, Anita was the entertainment for the kids (she is really taken with Heidi - the boys too, but especially Heidi!)

Ben had mango - all over his face!

Then we started comparing our hand sizes with Petoucheka's.

Dennis also decided to see if his invention of the portable solar panel USB charger worked.
It did!!!!

Wesley stopped by again and brought some Goudes for Ben to see... he even gave him a 5 Goude (which is worth about a dime) - very generous of him!

The kids found a window from the stair well into the girls room and wanted their photos through the glass. Then the girls played cards and Simon found a comic book to look at (not exactly to read since it wasn't in English...)

Next we headed back outside (wandered might be a better term) where we played more cards, played on the playground again, Petoucheka braided my hair, and we were quizzed relentlessly! :)

Beautiful smile...

We had another unexpected visit from Wesley who came to greet his friend, Ben. He had a really creative D.I.Y. hat in the shape of a baseball cap made with coconut reeds and covered in tissue paper! Very ingenious! Ben had a show-n-tell of his own... a coconut shell he found!

We ended the day by giving the kids another "first". Peeps. Yep, the sugar coated, brightly colored, marshmallow chicks! They weren't sure what to make of them at first - they were really fresh so they were unexpectedly squishy when they picked one up. The looks on their faces were great!!! I think all except Anita liked them and the jury was still out with her. Eveline liked them so well that she kept the blue package aside for later... Ha ha ha!