Spring Egg Hunt thoughts

The Spring Egg Hunt that took place from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on April 11 featured a lot of people.

From my own count, there were about 50 people in the line for the petting zoo, another 50 people in line for the clowns giving out balloon animals and about 50 people in line for face painting.

So that's at least 150 people right there. The lines appeared to be moving OK, as for the petting zoo about 15 people would be let in for about 5 minutes each.

My biggest shock was seeing the egg hunt, or egg rush. Basically, Claremont officials take out plastic eggs and candy and dump them on the grounds of the Memorial Park before the kids are let loose.

I remember as a youth going to an egg hunt where the eggs were hidden and it was at least a challenge. Not here. No wonder people think kids today are lazy.

The other shock, besides seeing kids trying to run to the center and pick up eggs as quickly as possible, is to see their parents actually go out and scoop up eggs for their kids despite being told on a microphone to NOT do this.

I hope those parents got a nice dose of Catholic guilt for Easter.

Other than that, everything appeared to go smoothly.