Despite the generous amount of time away from the office, the candy selection for the holiday is not so grand. Being in the land of Cadbury, you'd think there'd Creme Eggs, caramel and milk chocolate in abundance. And I suppose it wasn't too diffult to find the chocolate, but it was ridiculously expensive. And in hindsight, we were missing some of the Easter basket essentials:
Solid milk chocolate bunnies? Nowhere to be found.
Reese's peanut butter eggs? Nada.
Peeps? Nothing. And nearly all of the gummy candy here is made with beef gelatin, so we can't eat most of it.
Jelly beans? I managed to find some that were vegetarian, and I paid a small fortune for them.
Next year, we will be placing a special delivery order of the essentials to come from the U.S. long before the holiday arrives.
We did manage to fill in some of the gaps with uniquely British or European things. Instead of stuffed bunnies or chicks, the kids got egg cups, complete with the oh-s0-British adornments of Peter Rabbit and Thomas the Tank Engine.
Instead of chick-shaped SweetTarts, the kids got Kinder Eggs, which come with a Kinder Surprise inside (usually some tiny toy that gets lost in the Void Under the Couch).
Although we managed to make substitutions in the sweets and stuffed animal department, I was still concerned about the eggs. After all, what's Easter without brightly and unnaturally coloured eggs? Well, we have food colouring and we have vinegar, so it should be no problem, right? Except for one little thing...
You can't buy eggs with white shells here.
All of the eggs have brown shells, and I wasn't sure they'd colour. I needn't have worried; they not only coloured, but I actually prefer the dark, vibrant colours we got over the pastels that usually show up on white-shelled eggs.
And to top off our clearly not-the-same-as-the-Easters-of-the-past-holiday, we had pizza for dinner. Homemade, Mickey Mouse-shaped pizza.Hope your holdiay was as interesting as ours!
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