Big eggs. Small eggs. Plastic eggs. “Gold”‘ eggs. Real eggs.
It’s going be downright eggy this weekend across the North Olympic Peninsula.
To celebrate one of the most important dates on the Christian calendar, several organizations are holding Easter egg hunts, from Port Townsend to Lake Quinault and everywhere in between.
Kids usually love Easter egg hunts.
But why eggs?
It turns out that the tradition of eggs — an old symbol of fertility — predates the Christian era.
In Persia and Egypt, for example, eggs were eaten and decorated for spring holidays, according to Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
The tradition of eggs and spring indeed go back a long way.
A list of Easter egg hunts on the North Olympic Peninsula appears in the Friday/Saturday edition of the PDN.
