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FVR
Easter Egg hunt.
Yesterday, took the two kids (both 5) to the local easter egg hunt at the big park.
Area set up for the 5 year olds, 1800 eggs out. So many people, the area is squared off, three sides have easter egg hunters, one side has the refs or whatever blocking the other area that is for the older kids.
On your mark, get set, go..............
Wife has daughters hand, as daughter has poor eyesight and needs help. Me, I am right behind my son. Upon go, the world erupts. I see him for a split second then whoooshhhhhhhhhh, gone. In a split second there were over a hundred people between me and my son.
Three minutes later, the hunt is over. All you hear are the yells of parents looking for their kids.
I am one of the parents. My son got swooshed away in the mad dash for plastic and chocolate. I see my wife, were is .................we go into search mode, we are hollaring for our son, people are crowding waiting for the next hunt. The hundreds now turn into thousands, I'm trying to see my son, all the kids look alike, so I start looking for his bucket, bright green. Wished he had not taken off his bright colored army baseball cap. Still no son, wife and I meet up again, I go to the front of the new hunt and tell them to hold off, lost child, I'm searching the ranks on the opposite side, looking into the mob.
Wife, who is just awsome in high stressed situations, runs up to the mic., lost boy, they put out the name, problem, he is 5, he does not know what a stage is.
Next thing I hear, is his description, two minutes later, a man brings my son to the stage to my wife.
I don't eve want to have that feeling again. My wife is crying, we thought the worse. Ya see, our son and daughter are adopted. They have bio relatives in and around the area, and in my sons case, I would not put it by them to just try and take him oneday.
NO MORE MASS EASTER EGG HUNTS.
All I could think of was, he was taken or that he was crying in the middle of a group of people just feeling lost and abandoned.
After we all got back together, he asked to go home. He played it off like it was nothing, but later he told us that he was scared. He also mentioned that he would never run off like that again. I told him that next time, he is not going to outrun me.
