Sunday is Easter.
Sometimes there are parties the night before Easter seeing as it is a Saturday night. Sometimes you find LOTS of things to cheers to! Sometimes you even show up dressed exactly like your buddy! I'll drink to that!
Sometimes you have to hunt through Easter photos to find one where you don't look hungover.
Sometimes you have to settle for the one where you look LESS hungover.
The Italian Lenton season is ushered in with Carnevale much the way Mardi Gras does the like in America. One of the prime locations to celebrate carnevale in Italia is Venice. Score! Living just an hour and a half away, we can make that happen.
You know what? Our nations don't just share the love of big parties. Italians and Americans both also seem to think that Easter should be celebrated with mass quantities of chocolate and sugar.
They do their chocolate Easter Eggs a bit differently. The Italian way involves these giant hollow chocolate eggs that have some sort of toy or what-not inside.
I took this photo inside the Iper-coop which is our local mega store. I was talking with my lovely Italian friend just yesterday trying to figure out if the Easter Bunny brought these eggs or some other mythical creature. She said the tradition is for adults to give them to all the children in their lives and she would try to amass the most eggs each Easter season.
The Simpsons, appropriate for kids AND Easter. Who knew?
Buona Pasqua!
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