So, the day before Easter we had an egg coloring party. We don't color eggs any old way, oh no! We color them the Latvian way! Basically, everyone goes trekking out into the forest and finds flowers, leaves, grasses ect. and brings them back to the house. Everyone dumps their treasures in the middle of the table and the fun begins! You take an egg and wrap in in the vegetation of your choice. Then you wrap that in onion skins. Then... You wrap that in cheese cloth and tie it all up. After that you boil the eggs in onion skins. Look at the process and how they turned out:
All of the Vegetation
Everyone working on their eggs:
Eriks is having fun!
After the boil and unveiling the eggs:
The final results:
My best Egg:
Eriks' Best Egg:
Aside from coloring eggs, we also had an amazing lunch of traditional Latvian food. Lauma did an amazing job of decorating for the occasion:
My place setting:
Eriks' place setting:
All of us at lunch:
It was a really fun day full of fun activities, fantastic food and great friends!
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