Other weekend highlights: another meal made with mushrooms,
time with my nephews, sitting
around a
bonfire at Shady Brook on Sunday night with friends and family, more quality
time with Investigation Discovery Channel, slept snug as a bug in a rug after putting the down comforter on on Saturday.
Easter
Around The World 1 Ethiopia - Easter meal, Easter services, White Clothing Germany - Decorating trees and branches, Passion Play, Easter Rabbit, Oberammergau Passion Play Greece - Red eggs, Osterfeuer - the lighting of
bonfires Italy - Pope's Easter Mass in Saint Peter's Square Cyprus - Easter services, decorated candles, fires and
bonfires Israel - The Via Dolorosa, the Palm Sunday procession, lighting of the «Holy Fire» in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Easter
Around The World 2 Brazil - The Mardi Gras, Easter symbol - macela flower Mexico - «Pascua», woven plams,
bonfires, passion plays - Iztapalapa Spain - «Dance of Death» in Gerona, tronos, the nazareno, «La Mona» cake, torrijas Sardinia - Procession of Sorrowful Mysteries Sweden - The Easter Wizard USA - The Whitehouse egg roll, the Easter Bonnet Parades Easter
Around The World 3 France - «Cloche Volant» (Flying Bells), chocolate fish, «Poisson d'Avril» «Osterlammele» (lamb shaped biscuits) Lithuania - spring cleaning,» verbos», the «Easter Granny» (Velykų Senelė), sharing of hard boiled egg custom, egg rolling game Norway - Korsvandring (Cross Wandering), the «Riddu Riđđu» Sami culture festival Bermuda - Kite Flying Australia - the «Easter Bilby», festivals in Australia - Sydney Royal Easter Show, National Folk Festival, East Coast Blues and Roots Music Festival, Gospel Music Festival South American egg game - «Cascarones» These are ideal assemblies at any
time during the Easter period.