EASTER
Well, Easter morning dawned bright, beautiful and warm. Never thought I'd be able to say that, living in upstate NY. But here in Hawaii, that's the way it was. What a glorious day to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
We had a great church service.
Then in the afternoon, we had our usual Bible Study at the Bayles' home, followed by Easter dinner. The menu was Ham, Lamb and Yam, plus, of course, all manner of other things. But I thought the Ham, Lamb and Yam was cute. Okay, so it doesn't take much to amuse me!
There were dyed hard-boiled eggs which were used by everyone in an old Greek tradition, that our Japanese hostess wanted us to participate in. Okay, Greek tradition in Hawaii sponsored by our Japanese hostess. Fun. You find someone and the two exchange Easter Greetings (if you've seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding, it's the phrase Ian is trying to learn in the restaurant the first time he's meeting the family==Christos Onazzi [or something to that effect]). Once you've exchanged greetings, you're supposed to tap your eggs together and whichever one breaks, that person is out of the "game". You continue on, finding people whose eggs are not broken, until, hopefully, there is one person left with an intact egg. That person won a little prize.
My egg cracked on the first go-around, okay, no wise cracks, oops, no pun intended! So I just did what I like to do best and went around taking photos.
And here's the bunny cake, Leah's contribution to the dinner.
It was a really fun evening. After eating, people hang around and visit, no one seems to be in a hurry to leave. My friend, Chelsea, attended church with me in the morning, and the dinner also. She was very impressed by how friendly everyone was and said she felt very comfortable. Way to go, OPCers! Christ in us at work.
Easter=Ka la i ala hou ai ka Haku
ham=Pua'a hame
lamb=keiki hipa
cake= Mea 'ono
Aloha
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