This is such a super late post. 7 months delay to be exact. It was Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo this January 2025 and the streets are blasting with drum beats and the feverish pitch of festival air. Dinagyang Festival is a special festival for hubby and I, not only because we are Ilonggos but also because hubby used to one of the Dinagyang warriors when he was in high school. He belong to an award winning Tribu which brought him and his tribemates for free to Singapore to perform in one of the programs there. When we were still in our courtship stage, he took me to watch the real live performances of the Dinagyang competition with actual seats! It was my first time to watch the performance up close because we often just watch it on TV when we were younger and go out to Dagyang on the streets when the performances were done.
Since this is our first Dinagyang that we are permanently settling for good here in the Philippines. We didnt get tickets for the competition and opted to Dagyang in the late afternoon so kids will experience it.
There were still tribes performing like street dances on the streets of Iloilo. The drumbeats were infectious. We couldn't help but sway to the rhythm of the streets.
We walked around a bit more. We tried foods sold in the corners of the streets. It was fun walking arounds, trying street foods and watching the crowd.
J painted the kids faces with my Bobby Brown lipstick and my Faceshop eyeliner. We were too cheap to pay for the street face artist who paints people faces for a fee. J didn't know my makeup cost more than the face painting and my cosmetics were almost unusable after using it in our kids face. Hahaha! But ohh well....
We stayed until the sunset. We viewed the lights in the government buildings nearby and we headed back to our restaurant to spend the rest of the night there.
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