It started around 9am, so by the time we had arrived a little before 10am, most of the kids and their parents were already inside Rockwell Tent.
As usual, you had to go through the registration first. The morning egg hunt is free for Rockwell residents and guests, while they had another one in the afternoon for non-residents, with a fee of 600 pesos for 1 adult and 1 kid.
After registering, there're 3 stations the kids stop by at first, before getting into the tent. And since most of the kids were inside the tent already, Thirdy had the stations mostly to himself, and had the sole attention of the attendants.
The first station was the Happy Cow, where kids had to throw balls into the mouth of the Cow cut out. And since Thirdy's likes throwing balls all the time, it was easy for him to shoot the ball into the cow cut-out's mouth. He got candy in return.
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| Shoot Thirdy Shoot! |
The next station was Who Let The Pigs Out, where balloons with pig faces were outside a fenced area, and kids were to throw them back inside. And again, Thirdy loves balloons and throwing them everywhere, so it was easy for him to understand the instructions.
There was a third station, Hop Hop Bunny, which Thirdy didn't get to play as he was the only kid around at the time. Too bad.
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| Bridgeway to the Rockwell Tent. |
After that, it was a walk along the bridgeway, and past the front entrance of Rockwell Tent for the easter egg hunt. We had to wait a bit until there were a few kids along with us before we got started. We were told that the small eggs (they're plastic) had treats inside, while the bigger eggs were to be exchanged for bigger treats by the entrance to the tent.
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| Nanay Chea and Thirdy with their treats. |
When the attendants gave the signal, the parents along with their kids, scampered around the area looking for the eggs.
There were a lot of them everywhere, so every kid managed to fill up their plastic watering cans. Thirdy actually started to run and pick up the eggs that he saw. Just 3 days past his 2nd birthday, and he's able to understand what they're trying to do. I'm really proud of my little guy.
After exchanging the big easter eggs for more treats, we headed inside the tent, where it was full of parents and their kids, relatives and yayas.
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| Where's the horse? |
As usual, there was a stage for the shows, a small open area in front of it, where kids sat down on the floor, and then the chairs for the parents and families. Along the sides, were a couple of food treats: ice cream and popcorn. Along the rest of the wall, were the activity areas such as a Photo Booth, Face painting, Kiddie Salon and a Tutoring Club Booth.
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| Inside during the magic show |
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| Ice cream! |
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| Popcorn! |
We first queued for the Photo Booth, where the prints were like the instant ID booths where you had three shots of you taken. While we were there, there was this guy making balloon animals.
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| No flip booth this time |
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| A kiddie salon! |
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| Bag doodling. Paint everywhere. The horror. |
After that, we brought Thirdy to the Tutoring Club Booth, where he colored a piece of paper with prints on it. While Thirdy was coloring, there was a guy performing some magic tricks.
Chea then took Thirdy to the Face Painting booth where Thirdy had his first Face Painting. Chea chose a rabbit for the painting. Thirdy was still the entire time. That's pretty rare for my very active boy, so I was a bit amused seeing him holding really still.
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| OMG. Thirdy is sitting really still. |
During that time, another guy was performing some circus tricks. Most of them were balancing tricks. To be honest, he was really impressive, and he really wowed the crowds.
There was a trick where he had kids and some dads try to ride this really small bike, it's like 6 inches tall. None of them managed to sit on it without falling off (but they were caught by the performers so they never really hit the floor or anything), but the guy managed to ride it. And then there was trick where he put three boards on top of each other, separated by a glass on each corner of the boards. And the entire thing was on top of a barrel on its sides. So when he stood on it, it would roll of to the right and to the left. It was pretty impressive.
He had several other tricks, but I couldn't remember most of them. But they were really good.
After the performances, there was a raffle for a PS4, which a young boy won. Pretty lucky kid. He probably has one already.
The entire thing finished a little before noon, so we headed back to the car, and decided to have lunch elsewhere. We ended up at Dayrit's Burger and RoastBeef House in Q.C.
It was around 2pm by the time we were finished. Unfortunately, on our way home, it was still hot outside. It was about 33 deg C, but according to my phone app, the real feel was around 38 deg C. So we decided to go to Fairview Terraces to keep cool.
We went around and checked out if there were newly opened up shops. We spent most of our time at Wellworth which is Ayala's department store brand, a joint venture with Rustan's. We also dropped by a Globe store so Chea could pay her bills.
After that, we went to Active Fun, where we managed to get a free hotdog, fries and a drink since it was Thirdy's fourth visit. By 5pm, we decided to head home and call it a day.
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