what a Lavapalooza!

We were having lunch when hubby's cousins: clodette, cor & sol came over. While watching TV , the program showed the "lavapalooza event" happening in four different corners of the country. Cebu, Davao, Pampanga & Manila. All of a sudden, we joked to go and experience the said event! Hubby was hesitant at first but...well, he just can't say no now...4 ladies against 1 man...hahaha. So we agreed to go to Baywalk and leave the kids to Ninang Azon who leaves just a few blocks away from our house.

Time to Party!

We left @ exactly 10 pm. After less than an hour we parked our car at the back of Malate Church. Roads from Quirino Ave., was closed so we have to walk going to the event's venue . There were thousands of people from all walks of life the time we arrived at the said place...I am actually still having this fear of "stampede" because of the recent incident at the Ultra last week. I was very careful, nervous and even tried to convince hubby and her cousins to stay near the Police station, anyways...it would be hard for us to get near the stage at that moment. Hale performed followed by Bamboo. Then afterwards, we decided to move to another spot, this time I am a bit feeling better so I asked them to go near the place where couples are going to kiss when midnight strikes. So walk & move we did! passing by couples & some teenagers wearing nothing but black! (black shirt, pants and even wearing black polish, lipstick, eyeshadow...) that really gave me the creep! plus...they really smell! hahaha...we moved away from them until finally reaching the middle of the street where the kissing pit was. We were just in time to finally find our perfect spot when the countdown started.

Lavapalooza ! Express Your Love with a Kiss...



5-4-3-2-1...all couples kissed! hubby & I kissed...giggles! I never imagined us joining such event! hahaha...what a scene! Fireworks then lightened up the dark night sky...it was so extravagant & colorful! we asked Cor to take some still photographs for keepsake...What a nice experience indeed! It was FUN...and according to the event organizer, this Lavapalooza Craze started wayback year 2003...so it's now on it's 3rd year and this year was the biggest so far. I just saw and heard of this kissing event in the news when we were still in Bangkok and I never really planned nor even imagined to be joining anything like this...and besides, hubby won't agree for sure. But here we are, unplanned and yet, having FUN!

as the curtain closes...

The party ended when the fireworks were all shown and everyone's got captivated by its color. We stopped to take some more photos before finally leaving the streets, then headed to look for some food. We couldn't resist the smell of food in every corners of Malate. Foodstalls were jampacked so we had to wait for our turn. We had sisig, footlong, etc...plus some drinks. I called up Ninang Azon to check on with the kids and glad that they were all sound asleep. We arrived home past 2 in the morning...What a Lavapalooza experience that was!

Thankies :)

rlf, tco, sp