It was my first time ever to attend the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Clark, Pampanga this year and I am glad to have Brianna as my hot air balloon date. It was a great chance to bond with the cousins while experiencing hot air balloon-ing at its finest. I really had a great time watching it.
It was held at the Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga and it started February 9.
We just got to Clark Saturday (February 11) afternoon and we stayed at Fontana, instead of Hotel Vida. The decision to stay in Fontana was more of a change of scenery more than anything. Don't get me wrong, though. Hotel Vida has one of the greatest services when it comes to hotel servicing (...) and their bacon is good but we always, always stay there whenever we're in Clark. The change of scenery was a good call.
Anyway, we went to the Freeport Zone around 4pm to see what they will be doing for the night part which kinda disappointed us because we expected flying lanterns and all those cheesy stuff they can do at night but all they did was light up some balloons and that's about it. Good thing we didn't use our complimentary tickets for that night.
Went back to Fontana disappointed but that didn't last long, all thanks to Yellow Cab (Commercial: I love Charlie Chan. KTNXBYE.). Had an early surprise birthday bash for Anton's birthday this Valentine's so the atmosphere was really festive. After dinner, everyone freshened up and Ate, Kuys, Reg and I proceeded to our mandatory drinking session. We turned in at around 2am and we had to wake up super early to catch the flight of the hot air balloons this morning.
We got to the Freeport Zone just in time for the first hot air balloon. They looked so pretty in the sky. My favorites were the pink cake (BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BREE!) and the ice cream.
We then decided to use them tickets which was kind of a good call. Kinda because there were a lot of people inside and there were no freebies but we got to buy Bree this:
I soooooo love it that the only reason why I wanted to go inside was for me to get one of those and hopefully a bag of freebies, which they didn't have. Well, we also bought Brianna a balloon but she let go of it. If you were at the fiesta a while ago and you saw a green frog flying, that's Brianna, participating in the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta.
It was an experience we're definitely looking forward to have again. Actually, I hope we'd get to go back to the next Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, Feb next year. We'll be armed and ready by that time, complete with picnic mats, digital cameras and picnic baskets with yummy cupcakes, I swear to you.
Photo credits: Regina Balagat
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