So passes another Easter Sunday. As usual, many activities revolved around church. Maundy Thursday is when our church has a sort of vigil in one of the conference rooms, where the altar has been moved to. Many of us sign up to watch vigil over the altar all throughout the night. My shift was 2:30am-3:30am. Talking is not allowed, but no one was there with me anyway.
   Friday at noon we went back to church for an ecumenical service, and I ran the sound system, fixing a few problems during the service. Friday night we went back to church for choir rehearsal at 6pm.
   Saturday night we went back yet again for Easter Eve service at 7pm, where I played clarinet as a musician and Cyndi and I sang as a choir members. Then I went to a 10pm hockey game(my first game of the spring season).
   Sunday morning, we went to both the 8am and 10am services because this is the only Sunday that the choir sings at the 8am service. I also played clarinet again. We are treated to an annual choir breakfast between services, then we do an Easter concert before the 10am service. Then we have service itself, where we sang, I played clarinet and then I played piano for the recesional. This has become a tradition for the last several years, and the song I play is “Lord, I Lift Your Name On High”. Some years I do this on my keyboard rig, but I just did this on piano this year. I got lots of compliments again, since this really tends to get everyone out of the pews and clapping and singing. I’ve been adding a more complicated left hand part that mimics a bass player, and I think it spuces up the song a bit. Next year, I will have Aaron and Adam join on bass and drums!
   Then we go home to take pictures. Some years back our church started a tradition of wearing hats on Easter Sunday, so these are ours.

   Then I tried watching the Spurs play the Mavericks, but I was too tired, so I went upstairs to take a nap and convinced Cyndi to join me. She was tired, too, and needed to be a slug for a while. After nap, we did Easter eggs. Here’s the gang doing so, except for Aaron, who is trying to implant one in his eye:
 
   Then Cyndi convinced Adam to make his Apple Crisp, which he did as part of his cooking class for middle school. That was a lot of work for him then, so he asked everyone to help peel apples as part of the deal. Here is he and Aaron assembling the crisp, with Arianna sneaking into the shot:

   Then Cyndi cooked our Easter dinner, a nice ham with cloves plugged into it, croisants, veggies and wine. Now we are getting ready for bed after a long day, indeed a long weekend. Tomorrow starts the kids’ spring break, so we’ll try to keep you up to date.