9th Annual “Put On Your Easter Bonnet - A Multi-Cache Event”
Saturday, April 22, 2023
11:00 AM ~ 2:00 PM
Start: N 13° 25.260 E 144° 40.583
Pizza Hut Parking Lot - Sumay
Finish: N13° 25.259 E144° 40.581
Pizza Hut - Inside
The event begins at the Sumay Pizza Hut parking lot (N 13° 25.260 E 144° 40.583). At approximately 11:15 AM, you will be given information for some caching fun in the nearby areas. Fly solo, join other geocachers, or if you’re a newby, join a veteran cacher for some one-on-one assistance. If you haven’t found all the caches in the area, spend time doing just that.
We hope to have everyone back at the Finish site by ~12:30 PM to share stories, have a late lunch, and be part of our own Easter Bonnet Competition and special Easter Geocaching Game. Make sure to bring your special hat or bonnet . . . it may be the big winner! Competition has gotten tougher through the years. How creative are you?
Do you know these facts that surround Easter?
“1. Eggs used to be colored with natural ingredients.
Leftover onion peels, tree bark, and even flower petals used to be key ingredients to dye eggs.
2. The original "Easter Hare" would judge kids to see if they were naughty or nice.
Yup, just like Santa Claus, the first Easter bunny was created to ensure kids were well-behaved before Easter started. Treats were only given to good kids, while those who were naughty were left with empty baskets.
3. The date of Easter changes every year.
You may have noticed, unlike Christmas or Halloween, Easter does not have a fixed date. It is a moveable holiday due to Passover, which is influenced by the moon's cycle each year.
4. There are religious connections between Easter and pastel colors.
Pastel colors are bright and pretty, and we often connect them to springtime. However, each color also has religious symbolism for Lent, Good Friday, and Easter.
5. Before Easter baskets children would put eggs in a hat filled with straw.
German settlers that immigrated to the U.S. in the 1700s brought a new Easter tradition. The night before Easter, children would fill their bonnets with hay, and in the morning, they would be overflowing with brightly colored eggs.
6. Easter is the oldest Christian holiday on record.
Every Sunday, Christians would celebrate the resurrection of Christ, overtime it evolved into a pagan holiday to celebrate it once a year for the entire day.
7. Eggs are dyed to represent the blood of Jesus Christ.
In Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Jesus, before being blessed and distributed to congregants.
8. Most adults prefer milk chocolate to dark.
Adults are actually twice as likely to prefer the milky stuff, so keep that in mind if you're buying a sweet Easter surprise.
9. Giving eggs is a symbol of "rebirth" in many cultures.
The egg symbolizes new life, fertility, and rebirth in many places around the world. Thanks to the rounded shape, it's also been used as a symbol of the earth and our connection with nature.
10. Americans will consume more than 16 million jelly beans.
That's enough jelly beans to circle the globe not once, not twice, but three times — or to fill a plastic egg the size of a nine-story building.
11. Pretzels are linked to Easter too.
Supposedly, it's because the twists of the pretzel look like arms crossed in prayer.
12. Decorating eggs comes from a Ukrainian tradition.
The ornate eggs were called pysankas, which were made by using wax and dyes. It wasn't until Ukrainian immigrants came to the U.S. that the colorful custom caught on.
13. The first White House Easter Egg Roll was in 1878.
Rutherford B. Hayes was the president at the time. But it was President Nixon who first included a bunny in the festivities with a member of his wife's staff as the lucky person who got to wear the costume.
14. More than 700 marshmallow peeps are eaten each year.
This startling number reflects just the number of peeps eaten in the United States, and you can bet that most of them are devoured during the Easter holiday.
15. Most Americans bite off the ears of a chocolate bunny first.
In fact, a whopping 76% say that's where they take their first mouthful, followed by 5% who eat the feet first, and 4% who eat the tail first.”