Up, Up and Away

Lady getting her husband's hat



Dragon Balloon

The Hot Air Balloon Festival was this weekend.  I've been looking forward to it since we went last year.  I had never been up close to a hot air balloon until then and it's really fun to see how they blow them up and see the baskets that people actually fly in.  This year, there were 27 balloons...they were everywhere!  As you walk around them, you have to constantly be on the look out for one of them coming down.  ....then you run..lol.  Not that it would hurt ya, but it might be kinda hard to crawl out from under one.  There was this lady, that had to walk inside of one while they were blowing it up because the big fan had knocked her husbands hat off his head and it blew about half way inside the balloon.   They were suppose to have the " balloon glow" where they light all of the balloons at the same time, but they didn't do it this year.  Not only were the balloons fun to see, but there was a craft show and one of our neighbors ( about a mile down the road) who does iron work ( he made our fireplace screen) had a booth.  We stopped and talked to Melanie and bought a whole bunch of stuff for the yard, from her.  Dave went home to work in the shop because they were running out of things to sell and they still had all day Sunday to keep the booth open.  When we figured out that they weren't going to do the " balloon glow" we headed for home.  This is one festival that I will want to go back to again next year.  ....hoping to get to go for a " tethered ride".