I went to a Kung Fun Panda promotional event on Sunday organized by the Silicon Valley Moms Blog. It was my first family blog event - or as my kids put it - finally our turn for a goody bag!
I'd like to share the spoils of this goody bag with you - my first giveaway. Please post a comment below by Monday, June 9 with your email address and the best kid movie you've recently seen. I'll randomly select a winner to receive an HP Kung Fu Panda activity CD and a gift card for 70 snapfish digital camera prints (50 if you're already a customer).
The event, held at Kidville on the Upper West Side, was really fun. How could it not be fun with a bouncing castle, a trampoline, crafts, video games, face painting, candy, and good pass-arounds? But it was curiously missing promotion of the actual movie. I was expecting to see a clip or receive passes to the movie, but the closest we got to the movie was playing video games and taking pictures with a cardboard panda. Don't get me wrong, we had fun doing that, and we're still just as fired up to see Kung Fu Panda, but it did seem like a little bit of a waste. Isn't the point of getting a bunch of bloggers in one place to show them the actual product, or part of the actual product, so they can talk it up?
Regardless, I had a great time. I got to meet some online friends like Feener of Mommy Vents, and Phat Mommy, as well as catch up with some online friends I've recently met like Andi of Mama Knows Breast and Jessica of the NYC Moms Blog. I even got to have a few minutes of chat time longer than just saying hi as my kids ran around the various rooms. Pretty great for a sunday afternoon.
