We've got a long weekend for Easter! I guess it's actually an extra-long holiday as at school we have Friday-Monday off. Yep, that's four days in a row off.

I am sticking around Sofia and I am looking forward to it.

<em>A lot</em>.

My plans thus far: sleep in late, drink plenty of coffee, read my kindle, have some friends over for dinner, go on a long walk (or four), do a little shopping, dye some eggs, have a Bulgarian lesson and eat plenty of  <a title="Kozunak and Easter" href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2009/04/18/easters-in-the-air/" target="_blank">kozunak</a>. Basically it boils down to this, I'd like to be as lazy as possible so I won't be making my own kozunak.

Maybe I'll make granola--but not because it's an Easter food or anything--just because I like it.

I'll boil eggs and dye them because in my mind that's one of the best parts of the holiday. I love brightly colored eggs. The only thing is, I'd like to make say two or three dozen but what on earth would I ever do with 24 hard boiled eggs let alone 36?!

So I'll probably just make 12. That doesn't seem like I am over doing it when I down grade from 36 to 12. Twelve then seems like hardly anything in comparison. And frankly what's the point of dying say six eggs. Ultimately, that's a lot of work with very little to show for it.

Anyhow, for those of you who are interested, this year (as well as last year) the Orthodox church is celebrating Easter the same weekend as Western churches do. Easter already floats around rather than being a fixed holiday and to add to the confusion there are the two different calendars used by the churches the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Anyhow if you're interested in that check out on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_liturgical_calendar" target="_blank">wikipedia</a>. I won't even pretend to be an expert on liturgical calendars.

I am just glad to have a holiday.  And to see the Easter bunny.