FLOWERSBLOOMS by "Elvie": November 2014

Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Great Farm Race at Gratchi Farms Tagaytay

Team building participants at the Gratchi Farms Tagaytay entrance

I was too busy and I was not able to post this soonest. About two months ago, I was given a task to look for a team building venue for a cross functional team building hosted by our Quality Assurance Department. It was a short notice and so I immediately browse the web for some team building venues and came up with some proposals. One of the venue I found is located in the cool breeze ,city of Tagaytay called "Gratchi's Getaway" which was the chosen venue for the team building.

A peaceful and refreshing place

Gratchi Farm is a 6-hectare natural landscape and a great venue for team building activities, conferences, seminars, educational tours, workshops, events or simply for relaxation. We availed of the day tour with the "Great Farm Race." It was a day full of action packed creative activities and physical challenges to encourage trust, camaraderie and team spirit. We were divided into two teams ~ Yellow Team and Red Team. The team must find a series of checkpoints within the resort, decipher clues and must successfully complete each task before they can proceed with the next to complete and win the farm race.

This cool nipa cottage is great for relaxation

The tent where we hold the lectures and indoor challenges

Go up and you will get a great view of Gratchi Farm

The Yellow Team

The Red Team

Facilitators from Playworks

Gratchi's Getaway Team Building Programs is facilitated by its resident team of facilitators from Playworks who are dedicated to creating a professional and high energy atmosphere in which participants get acquainted, work together and have fun covering topics like concise communication, collective problem solving, conflict resolution, efficient resource management, effective management under pressure and others.

Communication Combat Challenge by drawing

The Battle of the Bridges

The Great Farm Race started with a visit to Ms. Piggy's little house to get the next clue to move into the next challenge

THE MINI ZOO

There were other farm animals at Gratchi Tagaytay. It was a mini zoo.

THE LOW COURSES/OBSTACLE COURSE

The Monkey Bars
The ladies need a helping hand as we can't do the monkey bars by ourselves.

Tarzan Swing

Bamboo Balance Beam

Bamboo Wall Climb

Zigzag Logs

Belly/Military Crawl

One of the card for the next challenge was hidden in the pool, we are searching for it.

This thing is hard !

Bamboo Balance Beam

THE HIGH ROPES

FLAG MAKING AND CHEERING CHALLENGE

The winning Team - Yellow

The losing team went down the mudslide

GRATCHI GETAWAY TAGAYTAY FARM RESORT

Brgy. Cabangaan, Silang, Cavite

Tel. No. (632) 463-9603 / (0918) 586-3688

www.gratchi.com

info@gratchi.com

facebook.com/playworksteambuilding

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Sunday, November 23, 2014

The Magical Winter Tale

The Magical Winter Tale

Crown Asia, the builder of Valenza Homes in Sta. Rosa City has launched its awesome Christmas Display this November 2014. A grand Christmas display is a yearly tradition of Crown Asia and this year's display is inspired by the Disney Movie "Frozen".

The Ice Castle

The Christmas display was a giant replica of the ice castle of the Snow Queen "Queen Elsa" which changes color from time to time and looks amazing and magical. You will also noticed Olaf, the enchanted snowman. He is the friendliest snowman who has an innocent and outgoing personality with an ability to disassemble himself during good times and not so good times that brings laughter to everyone.

The Polar bear

Here's Santa welcoming everyone, young and old

It would have been more spectacular if they put Queen Elsa and Princess Ana in the display

When we visited this grand christmas display, it was the birthday of one of our house member named, Ana. We took her out for dinner together with another house member as our birthday treat. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANA ! (1st from right)

Olaf says "Have a Magical Christmas everyone !!!

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Horror House (LBA Trick or Treat)

THE HORROR HOUSE ~ LBA1 Trick or Treat 2014

This was a late post since I was so busy but still I wanted to share it. Last October 25, 2014 was the LBA1 Trick or Treat. The theme this year was "HOLLYWOOD GOES TO LBA". It was a fun-filled day for the kids and young at hearts which includes the following activities in our club house ~ Costume Contest, Halloween Games and Watching "Disney Movies." After the club house activities, the children went from house to house for trick or treat. There was also a 3-day bazaars at the soccerfield. They also hold the "Bel-Air Got Talent", Search for Ms. Body Beautiful and a Mini-Concert. What a spooktacular events for everyone !

The LBA Trick or Treat is a yearly event in our village and we always participate by decorating our house with spooky and scary stuffs to liven it up and for the children and everyone's enjoyment. This year, we created five sections ~ The White Lady and the Witches, The Skeletons, The Cemetery, The Groom and the Bride and the Walking Dead Section. My stepmother and I share the same passion for arts and crafts and decorating so we worked together to create our decors out of old clothes, used papers, cartons and some other stuff we can find in our hourse. We bought some masks and other materials and accesories, too. My father who is an electrical engineer was in charge of the electrical, sounds and lights. Some of our neighbors told us that our halloween decorations looks like decors in the U.S. It is cool, a foreigner said.

THE WHITE LADY AND THE WITCHES SECTION