The Ultimate Egg-rolling Contest

As a child, part of our Easter celebration included a Saturday picnic to "Yoohoo Canyon." It was quite a unique setting where everything you said echoed off of the canyon walls and came back to you. We delighted in calling out "Yoohoo." (echo Yoohoo), "Yoohoo," (echo Yoohoo). Hence the name, "Yoohoo Canyon." We would take our Easter eggs and race them down the sandy hills. But the egg-rolling contest you are about to see was the all-time ultimate egg race for this Peterson family.

We started with a trip to Home Depot where we picked up a variety of tubes, rain gutters, and other interesting-looking objects. The men and the children spent a good half day building "the track." Everything was wet down, molded and smoothed. The grandchildren colored the eggs and picked their favorites for racing. The races began, heat after heat, until the eggs were beaten and battered, some of them reduced to mere yolks. Then the Grand Finale: