Easter Saturday - Bunnys & Brass

Steve & Holly stayed at a B&B in Wolfville last night but are playing at a church in Halifax tomorrow for the Easter Service so they had to go in today for a rehearsal.  John managed to get hold of Jody today so we said we'd call and see him for a bit and since we were down that way, decided we could probably engineer it so that we could go and watch some of Steve & Holly's rehearsal too.  So we went into Halifax and then down to the South Shore to find Jody's house.  It's coming along nicely and he's done a fair bit to it since we visited last time.  Most changed are his girls who are growing up really quickly.  I think that kids changing so much is a scary measure of time.  Steve & Holly's kids have changed a lot too!  We had a nice visit with Jody, although Leanne wasn't there unfortunately, and then headed into the city again.  John hasn't forgotten his way around Halifax that's for sure, so we found the church pretty easily and parked up and went in.  We arrived just in time to watch the rehearsal of the Quintet that Steve and Holly play in.  They sounded amazing and it was a pretty stirring sound along with the big old pipe organ in the church.  I think the congregation are in for a treat tomorrow!!

We went off to get something to eat as we were really hungry by then.  We had a sandwich at Timmy's in Bayers Lake (which seems to grow bigger each time we're here) and then headed home.  Nathan's family have arrived from Cape Breton, so everyone is all over the place trying to catch up!

Later I iced the lamb cake that Judy had made and was going to do the Bunny cake (a family tradition) but Noah and Claire ended up doing it and a fine job they did too!  Rather than the psycho bunny red eyes that I previously mocked Judy for, I did googly chocolate M&M eyes instead.  ha ha!

Later on we went to Dooleys for a bit as Shelley and Nathan had gathered friends and family there for a few beers and some pool.  We didn't stay too long but I had 1 bottle of Keith's and was kippered!  I'm such a light weight.  I so rarely drink these days I just can't handle it!  We ran into Sobeys just before they closed at midnight to get a new bottle of water for the cooler and some special non-dairy ice cream for Owen, which as a bit of a scrabble and I felt pretty wobbly by then too!  ha ha!