We have never really celebrated the Passover before, but some missionaries were visiting our church this Easter and put on a traditional Passover Seder dinner for all who wanted to attend. It was really interesting.
We had a potluck in the middle of it (in order to eat more than unleavened bread and interesting spices), but they had a script and all the traditional things for us to try including the "bitter herbs" and everything. The "roots" used were ginger...if you've ever had fresh ginger before Boo summed it up nicely, "It tastes like fire." Haha! We also had to try parsley dipped in salt water. Yuck.
I'm not sure how much the kids got out of it, but I think they did learn a little. They especially liked that you got to drink "wine" (juice) four different times.
Their favorite and most memorable part by far was that a bunch of people volunteered to put on an impromptu play about Moses' life and the Exodus from Egypt. Boo played Joseph in the coat of many colors.
Peanut played Miriam with baby Moses in her basket.
Bug was the Pharoah's daughter.
The hilarious part was when they started going through the plagues. The threw handfuls of rice (for the lice), bits of black paper (for the flies), rubber frogs, drew red dots on everyone with a marker for boils, crumpled up balls of paper for the hail, and so forth. It was total chaos and quite hilarious and after every plague we in the audience chimed in with "Let my people go!"
The only downside was Peaches had a hard time sitting still. She went to the bathroom five times in the 1.75 hours we were there and was all over the place. I don't think this is the intended traditional use of Matza bread.
But all in all it was a good learning experience and I'm glad we did it!
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