"Look at this one! Whoa, how did the bunny get up there? Look on the car's tyre!" The excited exclamations came thick and fast while the egg hunting reached a fever pitch.
As the early morning sun started to shine down on the shimmering baskets of Easter eggs it also illuminated Easter morning's greatest dilemma. Where was the fifth giant chocolate bunny?
Five kids, three locals, two visitors, four bunnies. Great work Easter Bunny, I thought, this should buy us a half hour or so!
"It'll be out there somewhere," I exclaimed. "Keep looking in every good hiding spot!"
It's well known the bunny comes very late at night, so maybe he was a bit tired when he was placing them, and hid it somewhere crazy. Perhaps bunny had a fuzzy head, as bunnies have a tendency to do and THAT was the reason for the errant treat.
"We've looked EVERYWHERE!" came the cries of five children simultaneously. But, as a parent I know that usually "everywhere" means in a metre circle around where they are standing and nowhere else.
"Did you try in all the pot plants? What about the woodshed? Have you had a look up on the washing line?" I ask, considering to myself where that silly bunny had placed it, and where I might have thought of putting such an item.
"Yessssss, we've looked eeeeeeverywhere," the children laughed.
"Well, how about a few adults help then?"
And so out we went - the full contingent of bare-footed, coffee-holding adults to scour the yard for a disappearing chocolate rabbit.
Just as I started wondering if the dog had eaten it, in a light-bulb moment we knew! Hightailing it down the hall and into our bedroom, my eyes looked up, to the top rear shelf, and wouldn't you know it, that sneaky Easter Bunny had hidden it in our wardrobe.
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