Vicki Barrett Photography Blog: 2009

I had a great Easter weekend, filled with family and fun. It started on Friday with a full day in the kitchen at my Mom's baking with my sister. (more on the baking later) While we were in the kitchen the four kids played outside, participating in an array of activities from biking to playing in the muddy stream. My youngest son ended up soaked from head to toe!
On Saturday I took my sister (for her Birthday) to the Shaw Festival Theater in Niagara-on-the-Lake. We saw Brief Encounters by Noel Coward. It consists of three one act plays, Still Life, We Were Dancing and Hands Across the Sea. After the performance had finished we walked around town and went into some of the shops to look at the great things. I also took a couple of shots of my sister around town. (She needs a picture for facebook.)
On Easter Sunday we went over to my Mom and Dad's house for Dinner and the 4th annual Easter egg hunt. The four kids loved to run around the yard looking for eggs.

Back to the baking; on Friday we spent the day in the kitchen "baking" or should I say burning!
Our main objective was to bake Paska (a sweet bread) for Sundays Dinner. If you have never made bread from scratch, it takes forever. The yeast needs so much time. We made buns and filled the oven with the trays. With in minutes we smelled burning. We all thought that it was spill over in the bottom of the oven. When we went to check the buns black smoke poured out of the oven. It seems the bottom pan of buns was the smell. We did not loose the other pans it was only that one. We kept on telling our mom that it was her oven and not our fault she said the opposite.
Easter day on the menu ham baking in the same oven. Time to pull the ham out of the oven; it is black! Mom I think it is your oven!!! The ham was delicious once the top basting layer was taken off.
Hope everyone had a fun and eventful Easter weekend!

George Bernard Shaw