Easter antics

So the Easter holidays began on Monday...the children are off school and its been a little too quiet for my liking. There's no school run to do and no sports in the afternoon! Its made me realise just how much I have loved teaching sports every afternoon - the interaction with the children in the townships and the sense of uplift I get from that time, seeing them so engaged and enthusiastic has really been the best part of my day. 

To keep the children occupied Jess and I sat down to plan some Easter activities. Unintentionally, most of them involved chocolate in some shape or form, so we decided to spread them across the two week break, to save the mums from an Easter weekend of sugar induced mayhem. We started off on Wednesday with a  session of making bunny ears! Here follows a series of adorable photos...

That seemed to go down very well, although the very little ones got carried away with the glitter glue and had them on for all of 2 minutes before deciding them were uncomfortable.

On Thursday we set off with all the children on an outing to a kids' play area, complete with bouncy castle, ball pit and a big jungle gym. This tired them out perfectly for the rest of the day and allowed me successfully to read to them in the afternoon, without the usual shouting, book grabbing and short attention span.

One of our little 2 year olds who spent the whole time burying herself in the ball pit

This weekend, on Saturday, we went on an exploration of the local countryside - down 'appletiser road' into real apple country - sooooooo many orchards, interspersed with vineyards and beautiful views that looked very like rolling Italian countryside. 

Apple Creek

On Sunday we decided some proper exercise was in order so we headed up one of the small peaks just along the track, along with a picnic and, unexpectedly, the dog (an old resident of the Village of Hope)- Raffabiki - very old, very blind, very deaf, but apparently keen on hiking, particularly when tempted with salami going spare from our lunch!

Not a bad lunch spot!

Bikki waiting patiently for us while we had lunch up on a rock