Well, Orthodox Easter is nearing and thus a thread about that subject needs to be made -after all, why should we orthodox people be second fiddle to the catholics/protestants? We deserve a place in the sun too!
Anyways, so what are you people going to do for the orthodox easter? Any traditions that are distinct in your own country (e.g. if you're from the Balkans/Russia as opposed to Greece/Cyprus)? Any food you look forward to eating? etc
I'm personally not certain what will happen this year - usually my grandfather went a trip with a travel agency to a hotel in Lasithi, Crete (because he was too bored to cook or something) and we went along because that's how mediterrenean families work, but now it's been like 5 years since he started this business, so hopefully he grew bored of going to the same faceless place each year and we'll switch it up a bit...
So anyways, have a happy Easter people wherever you might be! :-)

Happy Easter to you brother.
I won't be leaving my place but I would be distributing some food among needy. :)
Also I would be playing some X-Com.

I'm lucky to celebrate easter twice. Now for the orthdox easter I'm looking forward to "pască", a type of cake with sweet cheese and raisins.

I prefer my easter celebrations to be unorthodox...

Considering that the orthodox celebrations do include the burning of effigies as well as throwing rockets to churches, I'm really curious as to what you'd consider "unorthodox" :P

Usually it involves hookers, ballgags, a leather bunny costume, a big bowl of spaghetti and an issue of Vanity Fair from 1987...

The Genetic manipulation of Rabbit DNA to create a real life Easter Bunny that lays eggs.

In Syria it's a custom to visit all your relatives and friends on Easter Sunday, so I remember spending a good part of the day going from house to house again and again and again. Luckily a good portion of them would be out themselves visiting someone, so it wasn't all that bad.

No particular food associated with Easter comes to mind, though often lamb is served.

Do you attend mass or any religious celebrations? The Holy Thursday used to be particularly long (about 4 hours), and you have to stand through most of it. Towards the end your legs are killing you and you really want to sit down, but those 90-something grandmothers would just keep standing so you decide not to sit too. Last time I was there for Easter though was 2010 and it was shortened considerably now.

I thought you were in Ireland?
Dang...there goes my leprechaun theory out the window.

Throwing this kind of rocket to a church.

I won't be celebrating. At least i hope, unlike past new year's eve, that this holiday around, my damnable ex won't show herself in my doorstep, not this easter, not ever again. This time unlike new year's, i won't hide from her, i am going to call her all names i never did before, because the idiot i am, i truly loved her, when she acted out our "story", back then...

Food is food, though, i am going to roast me some lamb with potatoes in the oven, i already got chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs and last moment, i am also going to get me some seasonal *strawberries*, *sweet*, *fresh* and *small*.

Certain people saw to it, since quite some time ago, that i will never again have any point in celebrating anything, ever again. Plus, that i won't have anyone to celebrate with. I already drank from the cup they offered me and i am going to drink it all, all the way to the bile-bitter bottom. But this isn't going to end well and i am not even thinking "me", in this sentence... I won't rest until everything is sorted out, by whatever means necessary. Time is on my side, at least, for the time being.

And i stopped believing in that; after i found out the "loans", the "copying" and the "forgeries" of this religion, from much older ones. Or the downright thefts (call me silkworm).

Perhaps, but as geeks we prefer our shaded homes anyway.

Throwing a church to this kind of rocket. :P

http://i.imgur.com/r15d3P9.png

I thought it was near churches, because if it were towards churches, I'd have probably caught fire at least a few times while getting out of the church or something. But then I probably haven't been in the same places you have... Pretty much the same stuff happens in Greece/Cyprus, though visits to the reast of the family aren't as usual, because people tend to prefer to have all the family gathered together during Easter time. As for going to the church, I feel like I have to go there at least on Holy Thursday and Friday, because Thursday's the day the priest reads the gospels and takes the cross round the chruch and on Friday the priest and his helpers take the Epitaphios (a temple-like structure depitcing/symbolising Christ's tomb) round the church and then out in the city and meet the Epitaphioi of the other churches in the central square of the town/city. That stuff really gets me in the mood for Easter. And we also eat lamb in Greece/Cyprus, its the traditional thing to eat...

Eh, I was talking figuratively and meant that we orthodox people should be able to express our religious preferences as well. In all due honesty, I also am the kind of person that'd rather stay in their home, but staying in my home during Easter just doesn't seem right, as I won't feel the whole Easter atmosphere that way...