Millennium Forest

Christ is risen – hallelujah! Our Easter Sunday has been a pretty regular Sunday, with the exception that it started early, 6.30, to go downstairs for an Easter-egg hunt. We wrapped some little candy-covered chocolate eggs up in foil (I bought these at Thorpes yesterday, on ½ price sale because it was so close to Easter) last night and scattered them around the lounge. The boys didn’t take long to find them and were very excited to have them. Then it was breakfast, folding bulletins, typing out a song as Nick realized he didn’t really have any suitable resurrection songs for Sandy Bay, so I did “Christ the Lord is risen today”, etc, and time for Nick to leave. We had a relaxed morning – I did Sunday School with the boys, going over the resurrection story, and then they drew pictures of tombs and angels, and people running with their hair flying in the air to show how fast they were running (Caleb’s picture). This afternoon we went for a drive, all the way to Millennium Forest and Prosperous Bay Plain on the eastern side of the island. The great rocky feature pictured here is known as "The Barn". We drove about as far as we could, to the rubbish tip, and then back to the M/Forest, which is basically some barren ground with rows and rows of little trees, which is “a project aimed at rehabilitating the degraded wasteland through the re-establishment of the native woodland to be a recreational, educational and spiritual resource for all and a legacy of the island’s spirit of community and conservation in the new millennium”. Seems like a good idea. There is a little wooden construction there, a gatehouse, if you will, where we had our afternoon repast. There was a lot of space for the boys to run around and explore, which Caleb did with his usual enthusiasm. Aaron preferred to sit in the shelter with me and enjoy his juice and chips! We came home via Longwood, spending some time at the playground there.