Holy Easter Eggs Batman! Now we know what 7,500 chocolate eggs looks like- and just how quickly kids (and some grown ups!) can devour them! We (at Sunshine Toyota) held our first ever Easter egg hunt at the Alex Surf Club on Easter Saturday, 4th of April 2015 and it was a GIANT success! We had our fingers and toes crossed for a sunny day in the lead up to the big event and were glued to BOM on the morning to schedule our hunts around the torrential rain that was apparently headed our way. We needn’t have worried as Mother Nature was on our side and saw to it that we were kept mostly dry and even let the sun come out for a while! The Weatherman must have felt a bit silly after predicting storms for the entire Easter long weekend. By 8am there were so many kids champing at the bit to get at the chocolate! It took all of the manpower of the 30 staff members, who came down to support, to hold them back!!!
We had sectioned off 2 areas (thank you to Rapid Hire in Kunda Park for the bollard donation) for the “5-12 year olds” and the “under 5s” and gave each kid a bag for collecting (thank you to The Kiosk in Alex Heads for the bag donation). There was so much excitement in the air as Sunshine Toyota’s Dealer Principal Darren Venning started the countdown… 10…9…8… the kids started some good-natured jostling at the starting line to secure the best spot…7…6…5… their eyes zeroed in on the brightly coloured tin foil they could see in the trees… 4…3…2… We actually thought the kids were going to explode from excitement!!! As Darren yelled “1 Go Go Go!” there was squealing and laughing and kids tumbling over each other to fill their bags with chocolate. Some of the bigger kids were able to collect more eggs than the smaller ones and it was a very proud moment when those bigger kids climbed the Life Saver’s tower and threw their eggs down for the younger kids to collect. Such a great bunch of kids! I think they all enjoyed the visit from the Easter Bunny too (thank you Tammy!).
With heaving bags of chocolate the happy children headed over to choose their free balloon creation and to get their face painted (thank you Twisted Mr for being such a wonderful part of the day) and to collect some goodies from the Sea FM Cruiser (thanks Sea FM).
We did another 2 hunts, with different kids joining us as the morning went on. Some came dressed up as Easter Bunnies and others came straight from the ocean. My award for Man of the Match definitely goes to the smartest little 4 year old in town- who figured out that Darren was hiding eggs outside of the designated area and just followed him around! Every egg Darren hid, this little guy popped in his bag, what a genius! The look on Darren’s face when he turned around and couldn’t see any of the eggs was priceless!
The team at Sunshine Toyota feel strongly about supporting and strengthening the community. It was such a pleasure to put on this event for the local kids- their faces on the day were so rewarding. We are definitely going to make this an annual event and next year will be bigger and better! Thank you so much to everyone who came down to help make the event such a huge success and a special thank you to Marty and Ash at The Alex Surf Club. See you next year!
The team at Sunshine Toyota feel strongly about supporting and strengthening the community. It was such a pleasure to put on this event for the local kids- their faces on the day were so rewarding. We are definitely going to make this an annual event and next year will be bigger and better! Thank you so much to everyone who came down to help make the event such a huge success and a special thank you to Marty and Ash at The Alex Surf Club. See you next year!
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