Saturday, May 21, 2011


Easter is a very big holiday here in Georgia. They fast from all animal products (inc. milk, eggs, cheese, etc) for 40 days before hand. The week before we started seeing red eggs and then wheat grass. This is the traditional decorations. They do not have bunnies or chocolate eggs - we saw a few in some of the bigger stores - but no one was buying them! They have an Easter cake that everyone gets and takes to the cemetery to visit their deceased relatives. They leave the cake for them. We were impressed that this was a serious, religious holiday - no commercialism.



2 comments:

  1. What do they do with the eggs and wheat grass? Eat them, like we do?

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  2. You bought them this red color, right? I wonder how they got them SO red! Lucky for you...to have your favorite color for the eggs!

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