I’ve lived in the US long enough to enjoy various holidays. I especially like Thanksgiving and I can even get into the Christmas spirit. But Easter has never really been my thing. I never understood why people painted hard boiled eggs and then hid them from small children.

But I’m learning. Jenny likes Easter, so we usually go to Church and yesterday we had a little Easter brunch even. But I’m still left a little confused by the Easter bunny. What does the Easter bunny have to do with Christ’s resurrection?

My friend Laura posted this photo of two bunnies on her facebook page the other day.

Her facebook friends got a good laugh, but I was confused. “I don’t get it,” I wrote.

Laura wrote back, “You’ve been in this country too long to use the ‘I wasn’t raised here’ excuse.”

But I didn’t even use that excuse this time, I pointed out to Laura. “And I really don’t get it. Please explain.”

Laura explained that someone bit off the first chocolate bunny’s butt so he tells his friend that his butt hurts, but someone had already bitten off the second bunny’s ears, so he can’t hear the first bunny’s complaint.

Okay, now this was all starting to make sense. I appreciated her explanation, especially the part about the bunny who could not hear anymore. I also didn’t realize they were chocolate bunnies, which was my first problem. Even Laura gave me a pass, “the fact that you didn’t realize they were chocolate explains your confusion,” she wrote.

I may not have known they were chocolate, but I did wonder why the bunnies were brown. I thought it was some kind of Easter bunny diversity thing.