The weather didn’t cooperate but that didn’t stop several hundred people from converging on Muskoka Heritage Place (MHP) for the 20th annual Community Easter Egg Hunt, with chocolate eggs supplied by The Nutty Chocolatier.
“This is the first time we’ve done it this way,” Nancy Wenger, owner of The Nutty Chocolatier, told the eager egg hunters of the change in format due to the weather. With the soggy ground and continuing rain nixing an egg hunt, staff instead filled two wheelbarrows full of chocolate eggs and let kids pour a few scoop-fulls into their baskets and buckets. “I know everyone’s having a good time jumping in the puddles.”
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- There were almost as many umbrellas as egg hunters at this year’s annual Easter egg hunt
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- Egg hunters patiently awaited their turn to scoop from the wheelbarrow full of chocolate eggs
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- The porch on the Spence Inn provided some relief from the rain
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- Wheelbarrows filled to the brim with chocolate eggs were a tempting sight
Golden eggs were hidden in the wheelbarrows – those lucky enough to scoop one up got a special prize. Everyone had a chance to have their photo taken with the Easter Bunny, too.
Part way through the event, more than 300 people had already passed through the gates. More than 800 attended last year, said MHP manager Ron Gostlin.
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