2008 Easter Egg Competitors - Scroll and Vote

Instructions:

1. View all entries

2. Vote for your favorite 3

3. Feel free to forward to family and friends for voting (but no fair telling them what to vote for!)

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Egg #1 - "Replacing Pluto"

Egg #2 - "He Climbs Cathedral Mountain"

Egg #3 - "Global Warming"

Egg #4 - "Sunset Poppie"

Egg #5 - "La Boda de Sebastian y Conchita"

Egg #6 - "Alleluia"

Egg #7 - "Carmine McGillicutty"

Egg #8 - Untitled

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Egg #9 - "Organic Eggs on Canvas, #2"

Egg #10 - "Zebra"

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Egg Contest Update

Happy Easter Everyone!

To all contestants: Submission deadline has been extended to tomorrow (because I can't find my digital camera!). Please email a picture of your egg(s) to me (julie_e_reed@yahoo.com) and I will post them. I will not reveal the owner of the egg until voting is complete.

LOS MANSUR EN PV

Hola Familia,

Joe and I were in Puerto Vallarta at the beginning of March, and my siblings, Los Mansur, were able to get it together (which is NOT an easy thing to do with SO many Chiefs and NO Indians) to come and visit us for a weekend. They left Mexico City on Wenesday and drove all night (10 hours), arrived in PV at 10 AM on Thursday and stayed through Sunday morning. It was Fast, Furious and Fun!

Here are some pictures.

Welcome Breakfast :tamales, refried black beans, pan dulce, smoothies, coffee. I worried about them driving all night and was very happy to see them.


The Gang at the Marina in Puerto Vallarta:
Joe Sr., Moon, Meli, Felipe, Nora, Jessi, Lety & Armando

Breakfast In Bucerias, which is the town just before you get to Punta Esmeralda, our development.
Don Do Dat, You Bad Thing!

Sand Sculpture Contest On the Malecon (Board Walk) in PV.


Balancing Rocks For A Tip

Sergio Bustamante Sculpture, absolutely Amazing!

OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!


Felipe & Nora With Sandman (Mime)

Hanging Out With The Alliens

Sut Up Little Girl!


The Siblings

Beautiful, Sweet 16, Meli (Turned heads everywhere we went)

Meli & Jessi Getting Ready To Take On The Waves at The Beach in Bucerias.


Hasta La Vista Babies!

Sin Palabras

Armando & Lety, Romantic Moment at The Pool

Los Hermanos at Dinner


THE END

Hardboil your eggs and get our your dye... the Annual Easter Egg Contest is coming!

Last year's podium

Like many other families, Easter Egg coloring has been an annual tradition in my family for as long as I can remember. The eggs are dyed the night before and then are part of an egg hunt on Easter afternoon. My dad is always the official egg hider and I am always the winner (in my own mind at least). For many years it was just Amber and I (twenty somethings - young neighbor children watching over my parent's fence with interest (confusion?) after their own hunts were over). Several years ago we had the pleasure of our friends Chris and Carol joining in the hunt (my mom announcing, "Ok! Anyone under 30 - time to hunt! Ummm, ok, anyone under 35!" And we were off...) Yet I digress...

Before the hunt the eggs must be dyed. And judged. No prize for the winner other than glory. That, and perhaps your egg gets eaten last, and with a slight bit of remorse. (Ask Amber about Prairie Grassland and her lunch a few days after Easter last year).

This year Joe and I will be in California for Easter but the tradition must go on! We are also opening the competition to any reader of the Daily Avocado. We'll be figuring out a way to host anonymous submissions as well as online voting. Look for more details coming this week. In the meantime, start thinking about your egg, and equally important, its name.

Guarding my submissions

Hard at work..

Final Entries

Genius at work...