Hot Air Balloon Festival

Here’s one event your kids should not miss: The Hot Air Balloon Festival that happens every year, usually around Valentine’s Day, in Clark Freeport, Pampanga. It’s a four-day event that features hot air balloon flights, paragliding exhibition, aerobatic flight display, etc. Entrance fee is PhP150 but kids 3 years old and below get in for free.

Sofia brought her camera along to take pictures and patiently waited for the gigantic balloons to fly high up in the air. We left Quezon City at a little past 3am and arrived at Clark at about 5:30am. The balloons started to fly at around 6am.

Tallulah amused us with her crazy antics. :D

After all the balloons have gone up in the air, we set up the tent we borrowed from my sister-in-law. We stashed all our things inside and ate our baon burgers. The weather was okay - a bit cloudy, not so hot, and sometimes drizzlin’ – but the tent just made everything perfect.

Then we had ice cream. Food concessionaires are everywhere but I suggest you don’t let the kids eat or drink too much unless you don’t mind them using the portable toilets available in the area.

When things get boring or when the kids are not anymore interested with the shows/exhibitions happening around, you can buy a kite for PhP70 and teach the kids how to fly one.

Tallulah, always the go-getter, impatiently waited for her turn to fly the kite and learned fast.

Sofia preferred to watch and later roamed about the place (with her Dad).

Good times! My balloon shots are here! :)