While many across the world celebrate Good Friday today, we thought we’d share some of our most interesting stories and facts about Easter with you. The Children’s Easter Egg Hunt has become quite the tradition at Seabrook and in anticipation, we’d like to share some fun Easter stories before the Easter Bunny arrives.

1. An Easter Egg Made of 4,000 lbs of Chocolate?

The Guinness Book of Records states that the largest Easter egg ever made was the one by Belgian chocolate producer Guylian in 2005. The edible egg was 27 feet tall, 21 feet wide, and weighed 4,299 pounds. The author of the humongous egg mentioned he had spent over 500 hours creating it – what we want to know though – how long did it take to eat it?

2. Medieval Times Tradition

Think hunting for Easter eggs is boring? You can always try this one. A festival of throwing eggs was held at a church back in Medieval times, where the priest would throw an egg at the choir and then the choirboys would throw it amongst each other. Whomever had the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner! We just hope that egg was hard-boiled, otherwise that game is due to end very, very soon.

3. Easter? You Mean the Candy Holiday, Right?

Easter is the second most candy consuming holiday after Halloween in the US! In fact, when Americans get their hands on those bunny-shaped chocolate figures, 76% of them prefer to bite off the ears first, 5% eat the feet first, and 4% eat the tail first. That someone would do research on this is simply mind-boggling.

4. Easter Celebrations Around The World

The Christian Orthodox religions in Europe have a custom where they hard-boil and paint eggs, and then wack’em on Easter eve in an egg war. The person whose egg does not get damaged at the end is the winner and is supposed to have a successful year ahead. In Australia, kids exchange chocolate Easter eggs that have little toys in them. Fun!

5. Peeps Rule Easter

Americans buy over 700 million Peeps during Easter season. Obviously, this makes Peeps the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. Recently, we took one of our homeowner’s advice and tried Peeps smores during a fire pit hangout at Seabrook. Needless to say, they were delicious!

Got any more fun stories and facts about Easter? We would love to hear them! Drop us a line below and share some Easter fun with us and our readers!

Have you made your Seabrook plans but don’t feel like cooking? No worries, Front Street Cafe comes to your rescue with a full Thanksgiving dinner menu for you and your family!

Along with the regular holiday sides like potato rolls, mashed potatoes & gravy, yams, green beans, and cranberry sauce, you have the choice of turkey meat or prime rib cooked to perfection by the award-winning Front Street Cafe staff.

And the best part? They will deliver all this to your house if you would like to stay in for the family dinner. Hurry though, you have to order in advance to ensure all the food is still steamy when it reaches your table!

Click here for more information, and most importantly, have a great Thanksgiving Holiday at the beach!!!

Last weekend, Seabrook was overtaken by a gloomy, spooky, and incredibly fun Halloween fever! After the trick-or-treating livened up the town, it was time for the grown-ups to dress and impress with their creative costumes! The 80’s Prom Theme turned out to be an instant hit, and we have all the pictures right here on the Seabrook Blog!

The party started at the Sales office where everyone got together for the first impressions. Hairs were flowing, neon colors were shining, and the 80’s theme seemed to have easily hit the hearts of many. (more…)

There is nothing like a good old-fashioned way of showing you how fun 4th of July weekend can be at Seabrook. That’s why, we have just uploaded new pictures from this year’s celebration which included a fabulous Cake Walk, face painting, porch decorations, and our 4th Annual Porch Illumination Ceremony.

Nothing says Independence Day like patriotic-looking houses, decorated faces, and delicious cakes. You can see all that and more with one single click by visiting this slideshow.

If you have any comments, please don’t hesitate to share. Have some Seabrook pictures of your own you want the world to see? Head over to our Seabrook Photo Challenge website and submit them for some fantastic rewards.

After all, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Even though Seattle Magazine has over 70,000 monthly readers, we understand that not everyone will get a chance to see the Seabrook section in the magazines latest July issue. Therefore, we are posting an image of every page from the Seabrook spread which further established our beach town as one of the main destinations for a traditional 4th of July celebration on the Washington Coast. Hope you enjoy the article and don’t forget to click on the images to view them in full size.