Children’s Day 2015!
Thanks to Plaza Athenee, a Royal Meridien hotel in Bangkok, we celebrated Children’s Day a little differently this year. In our annual tradition of giving disadvantaged kids an opportunity to enjoy an outing during Christmas and the New Year, we were able to arrange our annual Dip n’ Dine outing ( where the kids get to have fun in a pool and thereafter have a sumptuous dinner treat!) right on the Children’s Day weekend! It was a much-anticipated excursion for the kids from the Emergency Home. Though the temperature dipped slightly on this particular Sunday in January, the cool weather didn’t deter these kids. Without hesitation, they quickly got dressed and were soon splashing away in the large,beautiful kiddie pool. Some of the bigger kids went off with our volunteers into the big pool, where they swam and played. It wasn’t easy getting these kids out of the pool when it was time to go, as they were thoroughly enjoying the water despite the evening chill coming on. All that activity must have warmed them up! But thankfully, it was the incentive of “come out now or miss your dinner!’
Now, we all know — The Raintree Cafe buffet is not something anyone would want to miss! The kids first took a tour of the whole buffet spread, before settling down to tables where the hotel prepared plates of the all-time kiddie favorite of french fries and sausages as appetizers. Escorted by our volunteers, the kids then had the pleasure of choosing whatever they wanted to eat! Choices ranged from cold cuts, cheeses, Thai favorites, baked/grilled meats, to pasta, to an array of seafood, and an impressive, mouth-watering spread of dessert including several flavors of ice-cream, mousse, cakes, custards, jelly, chocolate-coated fruit bites..etc.. The senses of seeing and tasting were happily engaged. The problem was making sure their tummies had space for what their eyes were feasting on! By the end of the evening, the sweet serving crew of the Cafe came out to send off the kids as they drift off to dreamland with the sweetest memories of a wonderful day in their little lives! Thank you to our friends at Plaza Athenee who so kindly partnered us, and arranged this memorable event..
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