We also celebrate Easter with the Easter Bunny, colored eggs, jelly beans, and lots of chocolate. He (or she, as we are never quite sure about this) comes on Saturday night leading to Easter Sunday morning. He brings lots of chocolates and other candies. That’s one meaning to Easter, especially if you are a kid or a “Chocolaholic”.

There is a famous Easter game called the Easter Egg Hunt. Early morning kids go outside to find the many-colored Easter eggs that the Easter bunny has hidden the night before. The Easter Egg Hunt was the first game ever invented. Allegedly, this tradition started was that the Easter Bunny dropped the eggs on the way to deliver them and the eggs hide themselves. That is how the Easter Egg Hunt was supposedly invented. For more information see the Easter Egg Hunt page.

Most of us will celebrate both parts of this spring holiday. Upon awakening on Easter Sunday morning, the children will hunt for the Easter basket left by the Easter Bunny. Then the family will dress in their finest new spring clothes and go off to church to celebrate Christ’s resurrection. From there, the holiday tradition varies. Some have a big breakfast or brunch feast. Other families have a big main meal with baked ham being the most common meat. Brightly colored hard-boiled eggs will also be popular. It is not a day for high-cholesterol diets. It is a day to feast as the long Lenten season is over and Christ has arisen.