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I left work early on Friday to come up to Idaho for the weekend. It’s Easter and in my family, there are a lot of random traditions that we still follow. Most people thought going home for Easter was slightly odd, because it isn’t a major holiday. . . . . . . . tell that to the Sandersons.

Generally we almost always play lots and lots of games, have a great BBQ, and just generally enjoy one another’s company. Easter was different for me growing up than most people. It is a little more intricate than just having an egg hunt, and candy filled basket’s. One strange tradition is the use of M&M’s as a mark that the Easter Bunny had visited us. When we get up, there are tracks and trails of M&M’s all over the house and we were told it was the Easter Bunny’s poop. We would run around and try and gather as much as we could. I know it’s a little odd. . . Easter Bunny excrete’s name brand chocolate peices.

Easter weekend is also spent playing poker as strange as that sounds. When we were younger and went to Craters of the Moon for our Easter Break, we were stuck in a camping trailer surrounded by lava fields with tons of candy. Oh, and we had a deck of cards. Against our mother’s wishes, my father taught us all the poker variations that he knew and we spent the weekend trying to win more candy from each other and from my father. He always had 5 times as much candy as we did, so he felt the necessity to lose some to us.

Recent years we have pretty much entirely replaced Black Jack and 5 Card with Texas Hold’em . The pot gets bigger and the game is much more enjoyable to play anyway. So as you can imagine, I have spent the last few hours playing poker with candy and will probably spend a few more through out the weekend winning even more candy, that I will most likely just give to my nephews and neice if I don’t finish it off before I go back to UT on Monday.

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