We've never attended this church, which is located at Colin Powell Elementary School. This review is for their Easter Helicopter Egg Drop, located at the NOVA Manassas campus.
We've attended their Easter Helicopter Egg Drop for the third year, this year. It's an overcrowded event held on the NOVA Manassas campus. There are too many children racing and parents getting in the way of kids getting to the Easter eggs. They have lots of volunteers and people directing traffic. But, the crowd control with the kids was out of hand this Easter and my child got lost in the mad rush for the eggs. They make the kids wait sooo long until they can run across the field. Check in begins at 10 am (which is quick and painless). The drop is supposed to start at 11 am. The helicopter doesn't appear until much later and then has to make many passes over the field. The kids rushed the field too soon after waiting so long and my child was separated from us. There isn't a plan in place for situations like this. We were next to another child that was separated from his family. He was older than our 4-year old and he was less anxious. Eventually we found our child (because of yelling her name and it might have been mentioned over the bullhorn (that you can't understand when spoken through)). The other kid was taken by a police man up and down the crowd to look for his family.
After three years of long waits and now the lack of procedure, this will be our last egg drop.
And it was so cool - to watch this helicopter drop the eggs. It must cost the church a fortune. read more