Apothecary Shed

For years, the Easter Bunny was bigger than Santa around here. Real. And very pirate. The kids looked forward to the annual Easter Treasure Hunt (which ended in exactly the same place every time…but nobody ever figured that out). There was at least a decade of deep Easter Bunny magic.

Now that Iulie is 7 (or as she says, “almost 8”), the Easter Bunny is back.

This year we had a slight planning wrinkle. Since it was officially Monday and not Sunday, the Easter Bunny was mostly done with its duties and relaxing in the Bahamas. We called EB up to see if an exception could be made for Iulie on Monday evening. Indiana helped. The EB said “why I think so.”

And thus the stage was set for an ALL NEW EASTER BUNNY TREASURE HUNT. Here’s how that went.

Initiation was way early (before Pilates) at 7:30am.

The kitchen table started everything off with map clue #1.

Iulie reads the clue, thinks a bit and figures out it’s her tree (which we planted together in 2023).

But does she stay on target? Nope. LOL.

Hunt for eggies AND remember the clue? Lots to do when it’s so exciting.

Iulie got just slightly ahead of the grandparents on her way to the tree.

And there it was, map clue #2.

Which led us right past some eggies hidden in the grass on the way to the Garden. Behind the machine (awaiting a tire change) was map clue #3.

A slightly trickier clue, this one needed “bouncy” for sure. Leading us t the newly fixed Swinging Bridge.

Iulie went flying right by map clue #4 and had to be called back.

And then it was off to the Guesthouse (BIML world headquarters). Eggies to find along the way.

Map clue #5 was tricky. A.poth.e.car.y is a low frequency word. Hey, that’s this blog’s namesake!

Finally, we found the Easter basket and some loot from the Easter Bunny! At the apothecary shed.

The treasure hunt was over. Time for a Spring picture.

And some sorting of the loot.

Who knew that the Easter Bunny liked legos?!