As an important part of any good upbringing, our kids are well-versed in the Chocolate holidays: Easter, Halloween, Labour Day (doesn’t everyone\u00c2\u00a0celebrate that one with chocolate union cards?\u00c2\u00a0 huh).\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, as anyone knows, the very best part of the Easter Chocolate holiday is the finding of treats that have been hidden around the house.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s way better than Halloween in that sense, since you don’t have to go and beg for your stuff from strangers with bags of candy, which on any other day of the year is a sure jail sentence for anyone trying to give other people’s kids candy, but I digress.<\/p>\n
Our kids LOVE the Easter egg hunts, which if I do say so have been awesome in the past.\u00c2\u00a0 Since the kids could all read we have er, The Bunny has left a very detailed note with riddles about the location of some of the things to be found around the house.\u00c2\u00a0 The Bunny has good writers that can really be creative, one of them is called something that rhymes with Tricky and boy can she write a poem.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, as the years passed we realized that the kids may need something a bit more challenging to maintain the fun, so I had a call with The Bunny and we decided that we would take the show on the road so to speak and hide things outside the house.\u00c2\u00a0 At first this was modest, since the kids were young.\u00c2\u00a0 I used a free app on my iPhone (which I had AT THE TIME, long before I saw the light, or rather the Lumia 920 that I really, honestly love more than I ever did my iPhone)<\/strong>** to get the GPS coordinates of where I was hiding the goodies, and then the kids could use the app to find the goodies again.\u00c2\u00a0 It ends up being a simple compass and distance display for them, but of course anyone who has used a compass to navigate before knows that’s it’s rarely that easy, and it’s not perfectly accurate, so there is still at least a little bit of looking required.\u00c2\u00a0 The hiding area became the green space behind the house.\u00c2\u00a0 The kids loved it, it was way too much fun.<\/p>\n This year, since we had a newly licensed driver in the house, it was time to take it up a notch and the whole city of Kanata became part of the egg hunt, which was both hilarious and so much fun.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously Jordy couldn’t navigate and drive at the same time, so the boys took turns giving directions.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say it was a good thing that it was early and there weren’t many folks on the road, as there was much sudden changing of direction.\u00c2\u00a0 The first stop on the Eastercache was by a stunning serendipitous\u00c2\u00a0coincidence Starbucks, which was so handy, as Nik and I dearly needed a huge coffee….\u00c2\u00a0 Jordy wasn’t COMPLETELY jazzed by having the handsome barista hand her the bag of Easter goodies from behind the counter, but whatareyagonnado?<\/p>\n It’s price you pay for having absolutely cornball parents I guess.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe next year I can cook up a map of the GPS coordinates we used for you folks to laugh at.<\/p>\n ** Update to clarify that I was using an iPhone 3G to do this years ago, just before “Thinking Different” became a joke.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As an important part of any good upbringing, our kids are well-versed in the Chocolate holidays: Easter, Halloween, Labour Day (doesn’t everyone\u00c2\u00a0celebrate that one with chocolate union cards?\u00c2\u00a0 huh).\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, as anyone knows, the very best part of the Easter … Continue reading