We prayed 2000 people would show up and more than 2000 people were there an hour before it was supposed to begin. Thankfully, the 200+ volunteers from the Leaf were on hand to help make things go as smooth as possbile. All was going smooth until just before the helicopter flew in to drop the eggs. That is when the nightmare began. Close to 6000 people showed up (some say it was more around 5000 – but I side with the higher estimation) Children were getting separated from their parents. Kids and parents were attacking other kids and parents to get eggs. The idiot flying the helicopter deviated from the plan and started telling the passenger to dump the eggs on top of peoples heads. Kids thought it was the coolest thing ever. Parents were having conniption fits. To top is off, most of the problems were being broadcast over the sound system.

It looked like it was going to be an enourmous failure, but I personally think it ended up a huge success. Even if 1000 people went home upset their kid didn’t get any eggs to put in their basket, there were thousands of other people who had a great time. In fact, there were probably 1000 people that didn’t even make to the park because of all the traffic. We’ll have a meeting about it Monday, but I think next year we do it again and go over the top with 100,001 eggs dropped from military helicopters with 20 inflatable bounce houses and 100 grand prizes to give away in special eggs.