KEKAHA — When the yellow tape dropped, it signaled the start of the West Kauai Lions Club annual Easter Egg Hunt Sunday. And about 100 egg hunters and their anxious parents crowded the starting line, scanning the vast sea of
KEKAHA — When the yellow tape dropped, it signaled the start of the West Kauai Lions Club annual Easter Egg Hunt Sunday.
And about 100 egg hunters and their anxious parents crowded the starting line, scanning the vast sea of colored eggs beckoning from the outfield of the Pony baseball diamond.
But the plan was to let different age groups go at different time to give the youngsters a fair shot.
Instead, they dropped the tape early, and all at once.
Still, all the kids got their fill.
“They let the tape down too early,” said Charlie Ortiz, president of the West Kauai Lions Club Sunday at Faye Park in Kekaha. “The older kids were good. They were waiting. I think I got them too hyped up.”
Naoko Ho, a longtime member of the WK Lions, said the downside of having the egg hunt on Sunday was a lot of people were in church.
“A week ahead of Easter is just too early,” Ho said. “We can’t have it too early.”
Ortiz said the WK Lions and volunteers gathered Saturday to color and prepare “120 dozen eggs, minus the ones the Lions ate” for the community gathering which was over in seconds.
“People have a way of coming out just before everything starts,” said Lion Eric Nordmeier. “Somehow, they always get it right. There were a few people who came in from the outside fence, but they made it before everything started.”
