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Find the Mommy Poppins Team at the Tribeca Family Festival for Fun and a Chance to Win Universal Orlando Tickets

4/27/11 - By Raven Snook

After many years of attending the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair, we've decided to join up! Mommy Poppins will be hosting a tent on Greenwich Street at Jay Street, just south of the first stage with lots of fun and big giveaways. 

What will be happening? Lots of cool stuff. Raise your heart rates with fun activities sponsored by eXerBlast, or relax in our BlastDown Zone (you know you'll need it after tromping through the fair). While there, enter for a chance to win one of our great giveaways, including four tickets to Universal Orlando. Plus you get to meet the Mommy Poppins team, and we get to meet you. Read on for details about everything we'll have going on.
 

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We're teaming up with a fantastic family place called eXerBlast, which is opening in the neighborhood in May. At this unique gym-play space, families get a real workout by running, jumping and climbing as they rack up points on a shared intergalactic adventure. At the festival, eXerBlast will set up a BlasterPath where families can get a taste of this unique experience. There will also be a BlastDown Zone, where you can cool off and calm down, or make a nursing pit stop.
 
We've also got some amazing giveaways. We'll be runnign a giveaway for 50 TrialBlast adventures, so you can be one of the first people to experience eXerBlast once it opens. One lucky grand-prize winner will get a family four-pack of two-day, two-park passes to Universal Orlando Resort! That's a $540 value.

So stop by to check out eXerBlast, chill out in our BlastDown Zone and sign up for a chance to win some great prizes! And to say hello, of course.

For more information about the festival, read our Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair Guide.

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Mommy Poppins Tent at the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair

About the Author

Raven is a writer, editor, performer and mom, who was born and bred in NYC, just like her husband, her mother and now, her daughter. As a writer, she's contributed articles to New York Magazine, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, the New York Post, TV Guide, Better Homes and Gardens, iVillage, AOL TV and Moviefone, Parents.com, and worked as an in-house editor for ParentsConnect.com and TimeOutKids.com. As a performer, she's appeared on many downtown stages (sometimes even for pay!), a couple of obscure films and TV shows, and The Maury Povich Show as a female drag queen. She's also the founder of Hot Mama Burlesque, the world's only all-moms burlesque show. After being the NYC editor from March 2011-March 2015, she is now happy to just be a blogger as she pursues additional writing opportunities.

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