“Mom, why didn’t the Easter bunny bring plastic eggs? He always brings plastic eggs in Ann Arbor” Ava asked. I sighed, “Because the Easter bunny can’t find them in the Czech Republic.” The real reason is because we were celebrating Easter two full weeks after it was celebrated here. We were traveling in Vienna during Easter and I didn’t want to take her basket and a bunch of Easter items with us. I told myself that we would celebrate it that week, and then I said we would celebrate it the following weekend, and we actually did celebrate Easter the week after that. Of course, all the plastic eggs (if there were any) were gone by that time. I was lucky enough to find some chocolate bunnies, ducks, and coins at a local grocery store. I
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