this story takes place when I was three and my grand parents just told me today my grand parents used to have a huge house with tons of land so when easter came around they would do something different, at the start of the day you and all my cousins get a egg with a clue that leads to a different egg with a peice of candy and a clue and all the clues are different and you have to find every egg, there is ten eggs and the property is so big that it usually takes an hour to find the next egg, if you were five or younger then you can bring a parent for help, the easter egg hunt lasts the entire day and usually the first people finish around noon and the last ones seven or eight pm, nobody really has an advantage because every time you do the easter egg hunt the eggs are in different places so you can't memorize the locations and the young kids have an adult to help them. so the first year my grand parents set it up I was three years old and my grand parents gave me easy clues because I was the youngest kid doing it so they knew exactly what my clues were the first one was "by a big rock" so me and my mom walked around for ~40 minutes and then we found a boulder as tall as my mom so it was 5 or 6 feet tall and leaning on the boulder was an egg which had another clue in it and a piece of candy, the next clue read "this is used as a swing here but is mostly used on a boat" so me and my mom wandered around for something boat related that also could be a swing and they had a lot of boat stuff, even a motor boat and a sail boat around, after an hour or two we wandered into the garage when we found a boat buoy and tied to the rope of the buoy was another egg. The third egg had a lolipop and a note that said "an old trampoline awaits you" so we wandered all around the property looking for a trampoline, an hour and a half later we went into the woods and found an old trampoline not long after, this time the note said "in the gravel, but where?" (I'm gonna speed this up a bit here) it was in the gravel at a play set there which had an egg that said "at the top of the tower is where you will find your next clue" so we went to the fourth floor and we found it behind the tv and it had a note that said "better put on your swimming stuff to find me" and we found it floating in their hot tub (the few times I've gone in the hot tub it was amazing but I didn't go in that day) the note was laminated and it said "wow it's pretty cold in this room with no heating" we searched the entire house looking for a room with no heating but we couldn't find any so we asked them for another hint to build off the hint that the paper gave us and my grandma said it's kinda like a basement but it's not connected to the rest of the house so we looked around until we looked around the hot tub and we found out there was a room under there and we found an eighth egg that said "this spot is broken because a moose stepped on it" (true story actually) so we walked around outside until we found a broken step that leads up to the balcony and inside the broken step was an egg, It said "remember to only open your final egg when everybody is done, your final egg is by some water but remember someone else is looking for it too" so we had to find this one quickly so I can get the prize and I found someone else looking in a creek behind the house so I looked there too and I found it first because he was messing around with his friends (I wish I had friends back then :/ ) so It told me to either tell Elijah (me) or Josiah (my cousin that was fooling around with his friends) that their egg is in some grass, so I did then I went inside and I finished at 6pm, we had breaks inbetween but I was still hungry from walking so much. when everyone found their eggs all the kids were called in to open their eggs, I volenteered to go last and when I opened my egg there was $20 which was the best prize and the prizes were put in the eggs at random but me being three had no idea how money worked so I asked where the prize was and everyone laughed when I'm a grand parent I'm gonna do the same thing because it was so fun, the last time we did this was four years ago because that's when the family got into a huge argument (my parents won't tell me why) and they started moving to other states in the usa :/
