Today is Easter. We all know that this holiday is more than chocolates and eggs. But now I would like to share some curiosity about it. Did you know that the earliest date of Easter was in 1818? This day was March 22. In this year, 2008, we celebrate it on March 23, and our offspring will do alike in 2160, as well. Easter fell on its latest possible day in 1943.

There are some popular custom in connection with Easter. My family usually paint eggs, eat ham. Boys sprinkle us with perfumed water or sometimes they come with soda-water siphon-which isn't so funny as they think:). But in the surrounding countries, for example in Czech Republic and in Slovak there are other traditions: men spank women with a willow rod (but normally it isn't painful), and women can retaliate by throwing cold water on the men:). This last part is very interesting, but I'm happy not to live there:)

In our village there is an other, not too nice tradition-from the girls point of view: boys scatter straw into the girl's garden at night, and we have to clean it in the very early morning...I'm not sure whether this is a common tradition or not.

On the whole I like this holiday because we can have a lot of fun, and my family is together in these occasions.