Easter Holidays!!!!!! Yippie :)

Since Easter-holidays just started and I’m thinking about the crapulence, that goes along with Easter, all the time, I decided to do a little research on how Americans celebrate Easter and compare the results with what Austrians do on Easter-Saturday and Easter-Sunday.

Austria	USA
Traditionally, Austrians eat lots of ham during Eastertime. Along with it, eggs, horseradish and special Easter-bread are served. Family gatherings are very characteristic for Easter-Saturday and Easter-Sunday as well.	Of course, there is a special meal for Easter, containing ham, unlike Austria. Baked ham, potatoes and vegetables is what American families traditionally eat on Easter-Sunday. Hot cross buns (sweetened cinnamon yeast buns with a cross on them) are a speciality. The meals are eaten on Easter-Sunday when families meet to celebrate together.
Kids love Easter because of the presents and the egg hunt game I’ll talk about lateron.	Apart from getting presents, there’s another feature that makes children like Easter: the egg roll game on the lawn of the White House. TheEgg Roll itself is a race, where children run in parallel lanes, pushing an eggthrough the grass with a long-handled spoon.
Many, many Austrians go to church early in the morning to attend the sunrise services.	Sunrise services are held in the US as well.
Austrian kids love the egg hunting game, they look for painted eggs that the Easter Bunny hid for them in the garden.	Painted Easter-eggs seem to belong to Easter in many places around the world, and so does the Easter egg hunt game. Children believe that the Easter Bunny hid the eggs for them during night.
The Easter Fire is a tradition in Austria. It used to be a religious thing, a fire was lit in front of the church, and people lit their Easter Candles in it, carried it into the dark church. Austrians still do it, but young people use the opportunity to get drunk ;) Often there are large Easter Fires with music and alcohol, commonly on Easter-Saturday.	It is an American tradition to conduct special Easter parades. Men and women dress up in colourful costumes, carryEaster candles, etc.