Easter and News

okay, so whats new.
we had easter, that was fun. i went down to Sedona again, then to Scottsdale for Easter Sunday lunch/dinner (linner?). and the craziest thing happened! the earthquake that hit Northern Mexico, we felt it! i thought i was going insane, i was sitting down and all of a sudden felt everything moving,like i was going to faint or was getting vertigo/ seasickness. i started freaking out cause i had to drive back to Flag from Camp Verde later that day. (also seasickness in the middle of the desert, thats a new one...)the whole thing lasted 30- 45 seconds but it felt so long! after it happened i thought okay, i'm just gonna sit here for a little bit so i don't get up and fall over. then someone came out of the house and said there had just been an earthquake. man was i relieved to here that! we all went inside where CNN was turned on, and sure enough they were reporting on breaking news of the earthquake. also as i walked past the pool, you could still see little waves rocking back and forth. it started out as a 6.9 and was later upgraded to a 7.2. it was absolutely crazy, i have felt an earthquake before but not one this big!! granted in Australia we are just about smack bang in the middle of a tectonic plate so we don't get very many earthquakes at all, we mainly just get the edges of ones from around us.

anyway back to easter, they do thing slightly differently over here, again. instead of hiding easter eggs (the straight chocolate ones, you know you find the missed ones melted 3 days later), they have plastic egg shells (think of the shells inside kinder surprises in an egg shape) that they put candy and fun stuff in and hide them. then they reuse them the next year! or leave them out for the easter bunny to stuff and hide the next year :) so not used to that! but it was all fun none the less. funny story, when we went out to hide the eggs, we got a shock. it was 6am, we were in the living room putting shoes on to actually go outside, and all of a sudden the kids walked out of their rooms! not good. thankfully we made up a convincing story about both of us going for a walk (their mum usually goes for a walk in the morning so they bought that one fairly easy), though the entire time we were talking to them, i was tying my shoe as slowly as possibly, praying that the kids didn't realise that i was still in my pjs, and obviously not actually going for a walk. it was very funny! then one of the kids cracked us all up non stop the entire hunt, she was squealing in excitement every time she found an egg. it was hilarious! all in all a really good weekend. and now i'm official welcome girl of our group. making sure people are welcomed and make to feel at home. this will be fun!
till next time.
katie xo