Holy Saturday

The day before Easter, there were some children's activities being held at the Sarawak Club. We decided to bring the kids over to have some fun, since Annie is always whining about wanting to join colouring competitions!

Anyways, there was a colouring competition, a 'guess the number of eggs' competition and also a clown act. This clown act is really getting old, because it seems this guy is the only clown in the whole of Kuching! :) He's a Filipino guy and uses a few names like Uncle Banana or Uncle Jerry..etc

I hired this guy once to come to the house for Annie's birthday and he was Uncle Jerry then. A couple of months later, the kids saw him again (was it Amanda's birthday?) and this time he introduced himself as Uncle Banana!

Cousin Michelle then screamed, "No!! You are Uncle Jerry!!"


Hehehe... you can't fool the kids!

Well, we've seen him many times since then, with his usual magic show and balloon sculptures. He also holds some games like the hula hoop competition. Annie is very good with the hula hoop, because since she was around 3 years old, she's been fascinated with hula hoops and got me to buy her one. Then she kept complaining that she couldn't do it well, so I told her to practise and one day she would be really good. And that is what she did!


After years of practise, she is now a pro and can twirl the hula for a very long time indeed. She's won a couple of  hula hoop competitions which made her feel really proud, even though the prizes were small tokens (Uncle Jerry gave her RM1!).

Anyway, this time round, the clown got a lot of kids to try, after they dropped out one by one, it was Annie and cousin Allyson left! The both of them could go on and on without missing a beat! So, Uncle Jerry Banana had to make them do tricks while spinning, like bending down, lifting one leg and turning around. In the end Annie outlasted Allyson and won a balloon umbrella!

It doesn't look like a lot right?

For the 'guess the number of eggs in a glass bowl' contest, Annie initially wrote down 100. Then Sis. no.3 said she didn't think there were so many. So I told Annie to go and change her guess! Annie then changed it to a much smaller number. In the end, the answer was 98! Annie was so close! She would have won if we adults were not so kepo (busybody)! :) That just goes to show that, sometimes, kids know better than us!

Anyway, all the kids enjoyed the colouring competition. Annie was over the moon when she won second prize for her age group. I don't think she has won a colouring competition before. This is also the first time she has won a hamper. Just like us when we were young, she finds hampers amazing, like a treasure chest of goodies!

Well, the important thing is that everyone had a fun day out! Nobody went home empty-handed since they were given a party pack of lollies each. It's way better than sitting in front of the t.v. for hours I'll say!

Hope everyone had a blessed Easter!