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✨ GIVEAWAY: Win Tickets to the Magical Water Lantern Festival! ✨

Enter daily for your chance to win 2 tickets to the Water Lantern Festival

September 6, 2025

I'm giving away 2 FREE tickets to the Water Lantern Festival happening on September 13th at beautiful Volente Beach on Lake Travis.

This is a sponsored giveaway. For complete giveaway rules please see below.

What Makes This Event So Special?

Picture this: As the sun sets over Lake Travis, hundreds of families gather together to create a peaceful, magical experience that you'll remember forever. The Water Lantern Festival is filled with fun, happiness, hope, and memories you'll cherish for a lifetime.

Here's what awaits your family:

🕔 5:00 PM - Gates open
🍕 5:00-9:00 PM - Enjoy food trucks, live music, and family fun
🏮 7:30 PM - Design your lantern with personal messages and wishes
🌊 8:00-9:00 PM - The magical moment - launch your glowing lantern onto the water
🌙 9:00 PM - Event ends (but the memories last forever!)


How to Win These Tickets:

  1. You must be a current subscriber to win. Sign up for Macaroni KID Cedar Park - Leander - Liberty Hill HERE.
  2. In the section "How did you hear about us?" just type "LANTERN GIVEAWAY"
  3. Wait for a winner email!  Each entry MUST be a VALID email that you check often. I will not be asking for a phone number, the only way I can notify you is by email. 

You may enter as often as you would like on this one. We will choose a winner at 12:00pm CST on September 11th, 2025. If you are drawn as a winner, we will email you and let you know how to claim your prize. You will then have 24 hours to claim your prize. Once claimed, the winner will be announced on Facebook.


That's it! As always, thank YOU for being a Macaroni KID Cedar Park-Leander-Liberty Hill subscriber! 

By signing up, I agree to receive emails from Macaroni KID. I also agree to the privacy statement and cookie policy.


The Water Lantern Festival is filled with fun, happiness, hope, and memories you'll cherish for a lifetime. Sponsored by




Macaroni Kid Cedar Park-Leander-Liberty Hill Water Lantern Festival Giveaway Rules

OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. ODDS OF WINNING WILL DEPEND ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ENTRIES RECEIVED. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. DO NOT ENTER THIS SWEEPSTAKES IF YOU ARE NOT EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AS OF SEPTEMBER 6, 2025 AND A LEGAL RESIDENT OF AND CURRENTLY RESIDING IN ONE OF THE FIFTY (50) UNITED STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.  THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH FACEBOOK.  

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON.  ENTRIES VALID SEPTEMBER 6, 2025 AT 6:00 AM CT THRU SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 AT 11:00 AM CT.  

Giveaway      Summary: Entry into this Giveaway begins SEPTEMBER 6, 2025 AT 6:00 AM CT      and ends SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 AT 11:00 AM CT.  Any entries received      after the giveaway period will not be considered.  This Giveaway      consists of 1 (one) winner drawn from all eligible entries received      between these dates.  To enter, 1) participants must sign up for      Macaroni KID Cedar Park - Leander - Liberty Hill newsletter. 2)In the      section "How did you hear about us?" type "LANTERN      GIVEAWAY".  You will be asked to enter your name and valid email      address that is your own email address.  By entering into this      sweepstakes, you consent to permitting Macaroni Kid to contact you in the      event you win.  No purchase necessary and purchase      anywhere will not, in any way, increase chances of winning.  One      entry per person per giveaway.  Entering more than once is prohibited      and does not increase your chances of winning.   Winners will be      chosen at 12:00pm CST on September 11th, 2025 using www.random.org.       Entry in this giveaway does not constitute entry into any other promotion,      contest or sweepstakes.  By participating in this Giveaway, each      entrant unconditionally agrees to comply with these official      rules.  

  1. Privacy Policy: It is Macaroni Kid’s privacy policy not to share, sell, loan, or rent entrant’s contact information (name, email address, etc.) to any third party.  However, by entering into this sweepstakes you consent to allowing Macaroni Kid to: (1) contact you via email to alert you if you have won; and (2) post your first name along with the prize you have won in the event you win on Macaroni Kid’s website and/or Facebook page. In addition, in the event you win, your contact information may be shared with the prize provider for the purposes of facilitating the delivery of your prize.
  2. Drawing:  Entry into this Giveaway begins at begins SEPTEMBER 6, 2025 AT 6:00 AM CT and ends SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 AT 11:00 AM CT.  Any entries received after the giveaway period will not be considered.   To enter, a person must 1) sign up for Macaroni KID Cedar Park - Leander - Liberty Hill newsletter, and 2) In the section "How did you hear about us?" type "LANTERN GIVEAWAY".   Winners will be randomly selected from all eligible entries using random.org.  Macaroni Kid will announce the winners on its website and will contact the winner via email.  If potential winner declines prize, fails to respond to three email efforts to contact him or her or fails to use the prize, Macaroni Kid will not select another winner and the prize will be forfeited. If a dispute arises over a prize, the winner is the person to whom the email account is registered.
  3. Prizes: The Giveaway prizes will consist of 2 (two) tickets to Water Lantern Festival in Austin, TX ($61.98 value).
  4.  Prizes are not redeemable for cash.  Macaroni Kid reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value.
  5. Conditions of Participation:  Each prize winner is responsible for any and all federal, state and local taxes, along with any other fees or expenses, associated with any prize he or she wins.  Accepting a prize constitutes winner’s consents to the use of their name, city and state for advertising and promotional purposes without compensation or notice, to the extent such use is permitted by law.
  6. Eligibility: To be eligible to win giveaway prize, entrant must a person must 1) sign up for Macaroni KID Cedar Park - Leander - Liberty Hill newsletter, and 2) In the section "How did you hear about us?" type "LANTERN GIVEAWAY" between SEPTEMBER 6, 2025 AT 6:00 AM CT and ends SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 AT 11:00 AM CT. An entrant is not eligible to win if he or she is under 18 years of age as of SEPTEMBER 6, 2025 or not a legal resident of and currently residing in one of the 50 U.S. states or the District of Columbia.  Void where prohibited.  No purchase necessary to enter or win.  One entry per giveaway: if you enter more than once, you may be excluded from the giveaway.  Odds of winning depend on total numbers of entries.  Macaroni Kid is not responsible for problems encountered with computer systems, equipment, failure of email, or problems with the internet or entrant’s internet connection.

Macaroni Kid assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, problems or technical malfunctions of any computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received on account of human error, technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or at any website, theft or destruction, or unauthorized access to, or tampering with or hacking of website, any combination thereof, or otherwise, including any injury or damage to any entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation in this Giveaway. ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY ALTER OR DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATIONS OF THE GIVEAWAY MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, MACARONI KID LLC RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

  • Disputes/Governing Law/Jurisdiction:  Any dispute arising out of this sweepstakes shall be governed by the laws of the state of [insert your state], without reference to its choice of law rules.  By participating in this giveaway, all participants submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the state of Texas for resolution of any disputes arising hereunder.
  • Winner Information: Winners will be notified by email to the email address provided and winner’s first name will be posted on the Macaroni Kid Cedar Park-Leander-Liberty Hill social media.  
    Sponsor: Water Lantern Festival Austin TX is the sponsor of this giveaway.  
  • Release: By entering and participating, entrant agrees to hold harmless, defend and indemnify (i) Macaroni Kid, LLC, (ii) Macaroni Kid Cedar Park-Leander-Liberty Hill and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers and advertising and promotion agencies of each; and (ii) the sponsor identified above from and against any and all claims, demands, liability, damages or causes of action (however named or described), losses, costs or expenses, with respect to or arising out of or related to: (i) entrant’s participation in the Giveaway, or (ii) entrant’s participation in any Prize-related activities (including, without limitation, any property loss, damage, personal injury or death caused to any person(s).