Balloons and face painting fun during last
year’s Children’s Day.
Warunya Thongrod
From navy ships to city halls, airports to shopping malls, kids will
be everywhere Saturday as the Eastern Seaboard celebrates Thailand’s
annual Children’s Day.
Events begin early and run all day Jan. 11 as public and private
agencies follow this year’s Children’s Day motto of “Be grateful, be
responsible, be disciplined, strengthen Thailand for prosperity.”
In Pattaya, traffic at city hall will be blocked to let hundreds of kids
run wild. Businesses will be offering free drinks and children can enjoy
game booths and win prizes. The fairground will also host displays of
military vehicles from the Royal Thai Army and Marine Corps, rides on
crane trucks from the Pattaya Disaster Relief and Mitigation Department
and booths with games, food and refreshments.
Similar scenes are expected throughout the city, with thousands of
parents taking their children out for fun and games at Central Festival
Pattaya Beach, the Sanctuary of Truth, Royal Garden Plaza, and other
attractions.
Bangkok Pattaya Hospital plans activities children patients in the
hospital lobby with more than 100 lucky draw presents, along with games
and quizzes.
Central Festival Pattaya Beach will hold activities in the afternoon,
when kids can have fun at many game booths to win prizes. Central
Festival will also be handing out presents.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum welcomes children with a special
prize to venture in the world of Robots and 8 fantastic amusement
playthings. There will also be many games, activities, ticket drawing
for kids to participate and to win scholarships as well. The event
starts at 8.00 a.m. at the museum on the 2nd floor of Royal Garden
Plaza.
Balloon art and colorful giant balloons will be on display at the Royal
Garden Plaza Pattaya’s ‘Balloon World’ event with many games and prizes
from 8 a.m. onward on the 11th & 12th of January.
In Sattahip, both military and civilian officials annually throw open
their doors for kids. Several thousand kids usually get tours of
Thailand’s only aircraft carrier, the HTMS Chakri Narubet.
At the Air and Coastal Defense Command airstrip at U-Tapao-Pattaya
International Airport, kids usually get to see six types of aircraft,
helicopters and a two-jet flyover sponsored by the Royal Thai Air Force.
