Easter in Sydney

Happy Easter from Sydney!  Easter is HUGE here. I have never seen so many chocolate bunnies in my life.  There are so many different kinds and so many of each of them. We even saw a chocolate bunny the size of Tucker. Cooper so wanted it so badly.  They also did a lot Easter activities at school- mostly bunny and chocolate related, but Easter none-the-less. Cooper is a little confused. He pretty much thinks that the Easter bunny brings treats to kids who are good.  For me, that is fine.  I do not need to go into the real deal with him.  :) 

We are keeping Easter low key in our house. I made the boys Easter "buckets" instead of baskets. The last thing I wanted around here are more baskets, so I bought plastic garbage cans, decorated them and filled them with goodies.  No jelly beans here so it is all chocolate and a few trinkets.  I love the Easter bilby they have here and the Kookaburra chocolates pictured below are another favorite.  We will do an egg hunt in the morning and then we will go on with our day.  I am sure much of the day will be spent telling the kids that they cannot eat anymore chocolate and pulling them off the ceiling from all the sugar...

chocolate bilby

chocolate kookaburras

 Note-- if any of you are wondering what exactly a bilby is...

A bilby is a shy, nocturnal marsupial, unique to Australia.  It has a grey and white silky coat, long, sensitive ears and a pink pointed nose.  It has thick claws and strong forelimbs that enable it to dig rapidly in the desert soil.  It is about the size of a cat, with the male growing up to half a metre in length from tip to tail, and weighing around one to two and a half kilos (just under six pounds).  It has an unusual black or dark grey tail with a pure white brush at the tip, which it holds in the air behind itself when it walks or runs about.  These delightful little creatures normally live for about ten years.