Spongebob Run on 6th August 2016 [Media Invite]

This August, the first ever SpongeBob Run in Asia happened in Singapore at the iconic Sentosa Siloso beach! Were you one of the participants too?

We were pretty excited to be part of this event! Being the bentomama, my hands got itchy and I decided to prepare some food for the family to bring out.

I prepared some tuna pizzas.

Fried some chunky fries. The fries looked a bit ugly because I'm supposed to dust the strips of potato lightly with cornflour, but I put too much flour (probably lack of skill) and that explains the white spots. However, the fries taste really good! Something like MOS burger fries, my fave kind of fries, chunky and soft on the inside. Will definitely try again for an improved version.

Since I have so much oil left after frying the fries, I might as well fry more stuffs right? So I continued to fry some more scallops and nuggets.

So we are all ready to set off for our run!

SpongBob Run Singapore
Event Date: 6 August 2016
Venue: Siloso Beach Walk, Sentosa
Time: 4pm-8pm
Distance: 5km

Picture taken from Spongebob Run Facebook page

We parked our car at the Beach carpark and proceeded to walk to the starting point, the time was around 4.15pm but by the time we reached the starting point, it was already nearly 5pm! 

How come?!!!!

It wasn't very far actually but we took such a long time because probably because of inappropriate footwear (crocs), my boys were struggling to walk in the sand.....a large part of the journey was on the sand and while walking, we saw the participants of the 800m Kids Dash running past. 

On the way to the starting point...Great weather!

Participants of the 800m Kids Dash making their way to the Finishing point

When we finally reached our destination, the 5km run was already starting......

Picture taken with permission from owner

Picture taken with permission from owner

Spongebob Squarepants making a special appearance at the flag-off (Picture taken with permission from owner)

Since we are not running, we shall proceed to have some fun at the carnival.

Our boys are not allowed to play with any gadgets at home so naturally, they are the happiest at this booth because they can play with this paw-patrol game on i-pad. We can receive a special gift upon downloading a free app from Nickelodeon but my hubby's reply was: "Erm, I'm worried my phone might not have sufficient memory for the app." And the person seemed a bit lost at his answer, well my hubby is holding Samsung Ace, have you even seen or heard of this model? Eons ago probably?

Free Spongebob vitamins which do not taste very nice

Long queues to take pictures with the mascots.....I'm actually holding the media pass but the wrong side!

Next, we shall explore the food section...the boys can't wait to get their hands (mouths) on the cotton candy.

Not many choices for food...fortunately I prepared food for ourselves...

Waiting patiently for his cotton candy

Still waiting......

Yea!

Enjoying their iceball

There was also popcorn which we did not redeem as it was near dinner time and I would not want to spoil their appetite. We missed the glittering tattoo as well because we felt drops of rains and decided to rush off to some place with a shelter (however, the rain did not come in the end......). 

You can also join in the screening of Spongebob cartoon from 710pm - 745pm but we are not too interested in the cartoon.

So that's about all, a pretty simple carnival with some simple snacks and activities. Was actually expecting more. But nevertheless, our boys were very happy and told us that they had lots of fun! Wonderful! And we took the shuttle bus back to our car, could not imagine walking on the same sand track back again......

Disclosure: We were given media passes to attend the event and no monetary compensation was received. All pictures and opinions were our own (unless otherwise stated).