Easter Eggstreme

We decided to join the madness and attend the Thanksgiving Point Easter Eggstreme event this year.  They stepped it up a bit by adding about 5-6 egg hunts per age group in hopes of not having as big of a mad rush of people at once.  We got there right when it opened so we wouldn't have a hard time with parking.  They had some bouncy houses, so we let the kids play on those as long as they wanted.

The event coordinators still haven't learned the lesson that five bouncy house IS NOT enough for an event this large....they need to double that number!  The kids play for a while and then get tired of getting pushed around since there are so many kids crammed in each one of those five bouncy houses.  We spot the Easter bunny and decide to go get our picture with him.

Then the kids spot the Chick-a-fila cow and they go WILD!  I guess the Chick-a-fila cow ranks high on their list...higher than the Easter Bunny! We found two cows....a girl and a boy.

Next we headed over to the field games.  The kids were excited to get some small toys to put in their Easter buckets.

We were lounging out for a bit before the first Easter egg hunt was going to start.

Now it was time - finally ready for the first Easter egg hunt.  They had different areas of the park roped off for different age groups.  All age groups did hunts in their assigned area at the same time.  Zach and Logan were in different age groups, so Jen went with Zach and Dustin went with Logan.  Here is a picture of the staff spreading eggs right before the hunt.  See the massive crowd of people behind the rope?

When they said, "go" - Zach was all for it.  See him in the MIDDLE of the field?  He ran right to the middle and started filling up his bucket.

A few seconds later it looked like this.....uh, where is Zach?

Quite the haul!  His Easter bucket is pretty much full!

We met up with Logan and Dustin and found out Logan did just as well as Zach!

We went to the tables and the kids started going to town opening their eggs to see what they got.  Logan had quite a bit of candy.  Zach on the other hand....all his eggs were full of stickers.  He was quite sad.  Dustin then informed us that the boxes of eggs they were spreading around on the field were all labeled.  He saw the one labeled 'candy' when the poured the eggs out on the field and directed Logan to that location.  Zach apparently picked all his eggs from the area the box labeled 'stickers' were dumped.  The next thing we did is what any parent would do.....Jen stayed with Logan (so he could keep eating the candy he just got) and Dustin took Zach out for the next egg hunt.  They went a bit early and carefully looked at the boxes as they dumped them on the field to find the 'candy' filled eggs.

The second hunt for Zach was a success.  He came back with some candy and some neat toys...NO STICKERS!  The kids were happy, so the parents were happy.  At this point we decided to head home :)