Egg Hunt- Round One

This year we decided to spread out the fun and headed to my parents' house last weekend for the egg hunting and decorating festivities. It was the usual messy fun. First we dyed eggs...

I just love it when their fingers turn all the colors of the rainbow!

Then we headed outside to hunt eggs. Theo was a little worried when I decided to hunt eggs with them. The buggar has a bucket full of candy already so I don't know why. Well, maybe it was more about the money eggs than the candy. So, we were off. 42 eggs, 2 children, 6 adults- 2 of which hid the eggs and later couldn't remember where they hid them. I'm not naming any names ....

We had a physics lesson as we hunted high and low. Can you see the green egg in the tree? You may have to double click on the picture to enlarge it so you can find it.

The memory challenged hiders decided this year they needed to up the challenge level so I think there is still one egg out there unaccounted for. I guess it will turn up next fall when all the plants start to die back.
Theo didn't have anything to worry about from me. Leah was the money egg winner. She found all of them but let him take the final egg. He was so relieved. When they had found all the easier eggs Dad started his usual antics. He said his "tree friend" was telling him where the eggs were and then he'd give them hints to find the egg. Leah was not buying it but she sure did take advantage of the hints!

Yeah, whatever Grandpa! Talking trees. Humph!

So the funny thing about all the talking tree business was that Leah ended up figuring out the age old trick that Grandpa had been using for decades. For as long as I can remember, the money egg (at that time there was only 1, go figure) was always the last one to be found. I have 3 siblings and it never occurred to any of us that anything was was afoot. That is until I was in my early 30's. I finally put it all together and figured out that the last egg was in his pocket until the very end. His mistake this year was hiding it in a spot that had already been searched. She had him! We tried to blow it off as her not searching the spot well the first time but I could tell she was dubious. We'll see if she remembers next year.