Helicopter Egg Drop

A local church was putting on an egg drop for the kids on Saturday.  Jessica, PapaMom and the boys came out to go to it with us.  We got there on time to register and had to wait around an hour for it to begin.  It was at the middle school on the athletic field.  It had rained the night before so you can only imagine how muddy it was.  We met up with Tim, Angie and Chloe and waited for the drop to begin.  The longer we waited the more people showed up.  Finally we heard the helicopter in the distance, it hovered above the field and dropped thousands of plastic Easter eggs.  Once it flew off the horn blew for the kids to begin getting the eggs.  The crowds moved in, we searched the ground, squeezed further into the crowd, searched the ground and......did not find one egg!!  Aiden cried for a good five minutes as kids with baskets full of eggs walked by.  All around kids were crying with empty baskets.  We met back up with Kyle and David who each had found one egg.  They were such good big cousin and gave their eggs to Aiden and Owen.  Next year.....we won't be doing the egg drop.

After reading about the event online I found out the church expected 4,000 kids more than 8,000 showed up.  Add parents to that number and there were A LOT of people there.