Yesterday we woke up to Eli at around 6:45. That is actually really sleeping in for him. We decided instead of hanging around the house all day we would check out the Hot Air Balloon festival that was in Bluff(about 45 miles away). We had read about the festival in the newspaper and it said the balloons would take off at sunrise. We were afraid we might miss it since we were leaving at 7:00 and watching the sun come up as we started the journey. However we arrived with time to spare as many of the balloons were just being unpacked from the trailers.
We were pleasantly surprised with what we saw as we really didn’t know what to expect. We had never been close to hot air balloons and hadn’t talked to anyone who had been to this particular festival in a VERY VERY small town. As we were driving into town and didn’t see any balloons in the air I joked that the LONE balloon rider hadn’t showed up.
Enjoy these pictures from our little outing:
Micali and Eli really enjoyed themselves and were very entertained watching all of these balloons get ready for take-off. This might just become a yearly tradition while we live here.
2 comments:
We love the balloon event here in early September. We've never gone to the fairgrounds where they set them off. They have a "Night Glow" event ~ a coworker says that's really fun to go to.
I bet it was really breathtaking in the area where you were ~ just you and the balloons. That's worth getting up early for. ~Grma P
We had so much fun going to a "balloon glow" when we were down South. It was in the evening after dark, and SO COOL! :) Glad you guys took the kids and went to this. A cool family memory!!
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