The annual feast of Moalboal is held on the 15-16 of May. Moalboal is known also for its "Kagasangan Festival" (coral) in which they perform tribal dances and music. It is held in honour of St. John of Nepomuk who is a Saint in the Czechh Republic, and also the town's Patron Saint but due to the pandemic, we end up most of the fun part in celebrating the town fiesta. The past two years were very difficult to embrace but then we have to obey the government and so for two years fiesta was like just an ordinary day for us.
Our fiesta celebration before started at first week of May and lasted until May 16. Everyday it has different entertain so from the pandemic most of us missed everything during the fiesta before so after two years luckily the covid 19 pandemic is slowly getting manageable so this year's fiesta is better we can now enter the church without too much restriction and a few entertainment is held so last night together with the kids we went to the church first to give a prayer and give thanks to Lucas recovery before strolling around to enjoy the moment.
Also, we lighted candles outside to pray for the celebration of the saint.
After done with the church to pray we started strolling around full of excitement because imagine after two years we can now enjoy some of our traditional town fiesta fun activities that most of us waited for every year.
It was then crowded that we cannot walk freely and so we decided to sit in one place and enjoy the concert from a distance. We also bought a few snacks that were mostly seen during fiesta here like sweet corns, cotton candies and steamed peanuts and many more but then I was so uncomfortable taking all of the photos because of the crowd and I don't want to look stupid though.
And of course, our yearly routine that whenever we brought the kids in fiestas expectedly we have to save money for the kid's toys because for all you know different kinds of toys are displayed anywhere we pass so we have to set aside a budget for it or else you'll be annoyed with a crying child if you won't buy them toy 😅.
We bought them a toy gun which is a smart choice that my husband Carlos choose because in a pack there were two guns already just good enough for our boys.
But then when they receive the toy and opened it that is when our problem started they were playing with it and we were bothered that we can disturb somebody and so we decided to go home to avoid it. We arrived home at almost midnight but the boys still want to play with their new toy.
Indeed it was still a fun fiesta we went to and I just hope that in God's grace pandemic will end very soon so by the next year I'll be sharing with you how fun our town fiesta celebrated.
This is, for now, thank you so much for reading this far I hope everyone had a good day!😘
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This indeed is a beautiful celebration
I'll like to join you one day
Beautiful organisation
Beautiful photographs
Thank you so much for your appreciation 😊
You are welcome
The altar looked great. This reminded me of the town fiestas in our home town when I was just a kid. I have some connections to the Czeck Republic but I did not know about Saint John of Nepomuk. Your kiddos loved their new toys. haha. !PIZZA
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Ehehe, I don't know too much about the Saint John of Nepomuk and it is new to me also but I just include it because that's what Google give. Anyway, thank you @juanvegetarian my kids really love their toy but as always I have to expect that it only has a couple of days of a contract to be played with because usually, they dismantle them or worse destroyed them.
Hahaha. Kids will be kids. At least na-enjoy nila. 😁
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This is interesting, Laica. Funny how I've been living here for almost 3 years now but I really had no idea what fiesta is like in Moalboal except for the numerous stalls along the main streets. I guess part of it was the event's cancellation for the last 2 years. I was surprised to find McDonald's open till midnight, that was fun to see so many folks and families around.
😄 is it really @Arni? It's a pity that you haven't seen the "kagasangan festival" here in the past year which I think you will enjoy. It's a lot of fun here during the fiesta before apart from the various stalls along the streets that can be seen there are times as if you're at a carnival because various entertainment is held here before the day of the fiesta. I haven't noticed that Mcdonald's was open till midnight I just notice that they have a lot of customers when we passed them on our way to the town. Hopefully, by next year, everything will go back to normal so we can have those regular activities again and I hope that that time you will try to experience our town fiesta and have fun at the same time.😊
Yep, I did experience the fiesta celebrations in Argao and other provinces but have only seen Moalboal's feast from afar or at least snippets of it so it's good to be able to experience it through your post even when I don't get to in real life.