Happy, happy Easter

I love surprises and I got a good one last night. My niece and her significant other came into town to surprise my brother, the preacher, at his church this morning.  We had a very nice visit and it got my Easter celebration off to a good early start.  Today went as Easters usually do - moving worship service (not at sunrise!), lots of family and plenty of good food.  Last night during our visit my niece saw a silly egg decorating device that I bougth on a whim a couple of weeks ago.  I said I hoped my grandchildren would have some fun with it.  My niece thought they (all teenagers) were probably too old for it but I'm happy to report that they all had fun with it and created some really beautiful eggs.  It's fun to see them acting like kids every once in a while.  They have such a long time to be grown ups.  I was so pleased with my idea about hiding the five dollar bills but we got busy and I totally forgot about until everyone was about ready to leave and one granddaughter asked me why an angel on my shelf was holding a $5 bill. I immediately sent them hunting for the other seven bills which they found after some searching.  They agreed that hidden eggs would have been too easy but seemed to enjoy this hunt.  I'll have to think of some new hiding places for next year  As a grand finale to this grand day I relaxed after the first load of dishes were in the dishwasher and enjoyed the NBC presentation of "Jesus Christ, Super Star".  Really excellent. I particularly liked the ending.  In past productions the show always ends with Jesus dead on the cross and so did this one except, thanks to the use of some excellent lighting effects, his body seemed to disappear in a brilliant blaze of light.  Much better symbolism I think.