Easter

I love Easter.

It is my favorite holiday.

This year, I decided to do a little something different. Instead of the traditional ham, "funeral potatoes", and other yummy comfort foods, we fixed a "traditional Jerusalem dinner". Our festivities took place on Saturday, since I had to work Sunday night. It all worked out perfectly!

It was fabulous. the menu consisted of:

• Lamb and Barley
• Lentil soup
• Roasted Chicken seasoned with Tumeric, Cumin, Salt and Pepper.
• Olives
• Dates
• Figs
• home made Flat Bread
• Hummis
• Yogurt sweetened with Honey
• Grapes
• Grape Juice (in lieu of wine)
• Cucumbers and Carrots
• Yogurt dip

The 5 older children (ages 5 to 10) all liked the feast. Everyone tried all of the dishes. It was very good, and suprisingly very filling.

Afterwards, we had a giant Easter Egg hunt out at the park, and finished the night with Angel Food Cake, with strawberries and Whipped cream. delightful!

Spring Break

This year for spring break, we stayed around Louisville.  Both Jarl and I had to work, but we still had fun.  On Tuesday, my sister and her kids came in from Lexington.  We went to the Louisville Zoo.  It was not a warm day, and quite overcast, but the crowd wasn't too big!  that was a plus.

Emma compared to a gorilla

Sophie compared to the gorilla.

  One of the first exhibits we always visit is the Giraffes.  They were inside, and up close.  Sophie and Emma took pictures.

Another fun thing we got to see was the Siberean (sp?) Tiger.  It was training time for him.  His trainer was feeding him horse meat meatballs, when he performed a task correctly.  It was so neat!  This guy is SO HUGE!!!  Sophie was very impressed that his trainer was a woman.  She wants to be a zookeeper/vet when she grows up :-)

Another fun thing we did was to go Kentucky Down Under.  It was our first time, and we had so much fun!!  I can't wait to go back.  

During the "walk a bout" we got to pet an emu:

sophie and the emu
We also got to pet a kangaroo.  They are so soft!  we learned that a kangaroo's tail is all muscle.

Marin just loved being up close with all the animals.  She would get so excited. 

Marin and the kangaroo's tail

   Emma and the Kangaroo

There were also two aviaries where we could feed birds.  The first aviary had parakeets and some other smaller birds.  

Jarl and some birds.  Thats Emma's little hand.

Emma and some birds