Do something different this Easter
Apr 15, 2011
ALTHOUGH Easter is the biggest holiday on the Christian calendar, few people accord it that hype. Many think Christmas is bigger.
By Hilary Bainemigisha
ALTHOUGH Easter is the biggest holiday on the Christian calendar, few people accord it that hype. Many think Christmas is bigger.
That is why when you mention Easter, romance is not the first thing that comes to your mind.
But come on; anytime is romance time and Easter has an extended holiday from Friday to Monday.
You can make it romantic in your own way. Think about the following ideas:
1) The travel option
Being a long holiday, many travel companies prepare packages for couples to tour upcountry national parts and other site-seeing places.
One such package includes departure from Kampala on Friday to Lake Mburo National park for game drive, then proceeding to Kabale for L. Bunyonyi canoeing the next day.
Saturday evening, you enter Queen Elizabeth National Park from Ishasha direction and on Easter, see animals, enjoy a boat ride on Kazinga channel, and the fun at a nice park resort. Easter Monday you return to Kampala loaded with memories. All this for about sh300,000 a pair.
Such romantic tours as a couple is an investment in memories. Memories last forever, can block you from dissolving the love and remain to haunt you if you go ahead and break the relationship.
That way, memories become the immunisation against the demise of a relationship. And the stronger and more unique they are the better they work.
Everytime Easter passes, the fun you had on that Easter tour will come to mind. And, with it, the romance and love.
2) The religious option
If you are Christian, take advantage of renewing your spiritual connection with your God.
This comes easy for women but you may need to lovingly coax your husband to take the Easter journey with you.
It comes with advantages. Sharing the passion journey will raise your connection into a spiritual realm that is eternal. Couples that pray together are more likely to stay together.
Keeping your spouses connected to their religious/spiritual beliefs and obligations helps in reducing infidelity, strengthening commitment to your marriage vows and making it easy for you to enjoy each other.
It begins with Palm Sunday where you both participate in getting palms, walking the palms procession and thereafter budgeting together for the whole week.
On Holy Thursday morning, do for each other something that expresses deep selflessness exhibited by Jesus to his disciples.
Go for service in the afternoon and stay for the passion rituals at church, hurting and repenting.
That should usher you into Good Friday where you keep each other company, praying together and discussing spiritual challenges.
Shop together before you attend the way of the Cross.
Saturday should begin with preparing the house together for the Easter celebration and later, have a good dinner out before proceeding to attend together the midnight Easter mass.
That should usher you into Easter connected spiritually. Attend mass together, have lunch together before you treat yourselves to an afternoon of your preference.
3) The family option
You can also use the long holiday to visit your or your spouse’s parents. As a working community, the opportunity for such long holidays is rare.
Easter gives you time to travel on Friday, be with them on Saturday and Easter before returning on Easter Monday.
If you have never introduced Beloved to your parents, this is the opportunity to have an informal get together and get your parents’ opinion.
You can also show your catch around your village and visit other relatives. That Easter will be memorable.
You can also go out as a family. If you can afford, eat out.
If you can’t, have lunch before you move out to a theatre, beach, and other family-friendly hung outs.
Adults can extend their stay after dropping kids because Monday is a holiday. You can also plan an Easter picnic
This is a common suggestion, but not many couples actually take advantage of it! pack a picnic lunch with Easter staples like ham, plus a bottle of wine.
Head out to your local park, grab a spot in the shade under a tree and prepare yourself for an afternoon of romance.
4) Indoor option
You don’t have to go out at all. You can stay and bond especially if you don’t live together.
Watch movies, play games (scrabble, chess, cards, romantic) and do all chores together especially cooking, washing dishes, clothes and general cleaning. If you are a young couple, staying alone in a secluded place, switch off your phones and stay naked all the time.
5) If you are alone
If Easter finds you alone without a spouse or lover, you can use the time to bond with your friends, hang out in fun sports, pray and generally mingle because that is how you can get paired.
Movies, TV or music alone at home shouldn’t be on your menu. Solitary Easters don’t create good memories.
If you are paired but your spouse is away in a place you cannot easily go, technology has come.
Use one of the Easter holiday days to chat for some time. Make sure you keep in touch, call each other daily and remember to send an Easter present.
6) Special Easter
Finally, if you have been looking for an opportune time to pop the question, why not make it a romantic Easter proposal? Sure, you don’t usually think Easter when you think of proposals, but there are many creative and romantic Easter ideas for proposing marriage.
ALTHOUGH Easter is the biggest holiday on the Christian calendar, few people accord it that hype. Many think Christmas is bigger.
That is why when you mention Easter, romance is not the first thing that comes to your mind.
But come on; anytime is romance time and Easter has an extended holiday from Friday to Monday.
You can make it romantic in your own way. Think about the following ideas:
1) The travel option
Being a long holiday, many travel companies prepare packages for couples to tour upcountry national parts and other site-seeing places.
One such package includes departure from Kampala on Friday to Lake Mburo National park for game drive, then proceeding to Kabale for L. Bunyonyi canoeing the next day.
Saturday evening, you enter Queen Elizabeth National Park from Ishasha direction and on Easter, see animals, enjoy a boat ride on Kazinga channel, and the fun at a nice park resort. Easter Monday you return to Kampala loaded with memories. All this for about sh300,000 a pair.
Such romantic tours as a couple is an investment in memories. Memories last forever, can block you from dissolving the love and remain to haunt you if you go ahead and break the relationship.
That way, memories become the immunisation against the demise of a relationship. And the stronger and more unique they are the better they work.
Everytime Easter passes, the fun you had on that Easter tour will come to mind. And, with it, the romance and love.
2) The religious option
If you are Christian, take advantage of renewing your spiritual connection with your God.
This comes easy for women but you may need to lovingly coax your husband to take the Easter journey with you.
It comes with advantages. Sharing the passion journey will raise your connection into a spiritual realm that is eternal. Couples that pray together are more likely to stay together.
Keeping your spouses connected to their religious/spiritual beliefs and obligations helps in reducing infidelity, strengthening commitment to your marriage vows and making it easy for you to enjoy each other.
It begins with Palm Sunday where you both participate in getting palms, walking the palms procession and thereafter budgeting together for the whole week.
On Holy Thursday morning, do for each other something that expresses deep selflessness exhibited by Jesus to his disciples.
Go for service in the afternoon and stay for the passion rituals at church, hurting and repenting.
That should usher you into Good Friday where you keep each other company, praying together and discussing spiritual challenges.
Shop together before you attend the way of the Cross.
Saturday should begin with preparing the house together for the Easter celebration and later, have a good dinner out before proceeding to attend together the midnight Easter mass.
That should usher you into Easter connected spiritually. Attend mass together, have lunch together before you treat yourselves to an afternoon of your preference.
3) The family option
You can also use the long holiday to visit your or your spouse’s parents. As a working community, the opportunity for such long holidays is rare.
Easter gives you time to travel on Friday, be with them on Saturday and Easter before returning on Easter Monday.
If you have never introduced Beloved to your parents, this is the opportunity to have an informal get together and get your parents’ opinion.
You can also show your catch around your village and visit other relatives. That Easter will be memorable.
You can also go out as a family. If you can afford, eat out.
If you can’t, have lunch before you move out to a theatre, beach, and other family-friendly hung outs.
Adults can extend their stay after dropping kids because Monday is a holiday. You can also plan an Easter picnic
This is a common suggestion, but not many couples actually take advantage of it! pack a picnic lunch with Easter staples like ham, plus a bottle of wine.
Head out to your local park, grab a spot in the shade under a tree and prepare yourself for an afternoon of romance.
4) Indoor option
You don’t have to go out at all. You can stay and bond especially if you don’t live together.
Watch movies, play games (scrabble, chess, cards, romantic) and do all chores together especially cooking, washing dishes, clothes and general cleaning. If you are a young couple, staying alone in a secluded place, switch off your phones and stay naked all the time.
5) If you are alone
If Easter finds you alone without a spouse or lover, you can use the time to bond with your friends, hang out in fun sports, pray and generally mingle because that is how you can get paired.
Movies, TV or music alone at home shouldn’t be on your menu. Solitary Easters don’t create good memories.
If you are paired but your spouse is away in a place you cannot easily go, technology has come.
Use one of the Easter holiday days to chat for some time. Make sure you keep in touch, call each other daily and remember to send an Easter present.
6) Special Easter
Finally, if you have been looking for an opportune time to pop the question, why not make it a romantic Easter proposal? Sure, you don’t usually think Easter when you think of proposals, but there are many creative and romantic Easter ideas for proposing marriage.