Proably First calm Easter in my life or what's your traditions????

Everyone else will tell you about what they do with Easter Eggs and bunny rabbits and the parades, so instead I will say thata your Easter custom sounds i little bit like the May Day celebrations we used to have. On May Day all the children wove baskets and filled them with candy and wild flowers and then put them on the doorstep of a friends of the opposite gender (boy puts on girl's doorstep and girl puts on boy's) and then you knocked or rang the bell and ran away, but not very fast. The person in the house would see the basket and then run after you to give a kiss in repayment for this. Nobody got beaten, but later in the day there would be a pole with long ribbons and adults would help the children dance around the pole and weave the ribbons as we went. Here are some pictures of May Poles around the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maypole Nowadays some people feel that only pagans do this, but when I was young everyone did and there was no stigma attached to the practice. Do they dance around the May Pole on May 1 in Slovakia or has that day been taken over by the labor unions?

I had such a joy reading about this tradition in a child book my daughter read - The book was by Kate Seredy She was an excellent writer and illustrator who imigrated to the states from Hungary. We get such delightful tidbits of the traditions in her stories. I took the information to my very good hungarian/romanian friend and she verified that it is really done! even in her childhood in the states - they lived in a slovak community and everyone still kept the traditions. I think that is so cool! I love it! I wish there were rich traditions with meanings still in this country.