From our driveway Saturday morning (first of the 10 day festival), we saw balloons in the distance speckled all over the sky. Hot air balloons. Seriously cool to drive on the interstate across town and it's like a parade in the sky! I wasn't prepared for how amazing it would be. Henri just looked out the window making his "bird" sound/word, Eli was thrilled to point out "lots of balloons! Look another one!"
And so I learned from a friend that Albuquerque hosts this big event annually because the Sandia mountains create this perfect box for wind/air consistency, which is important with hot air balloons. They launch crack of dawn and because we weren't thrilled about waking our boys at 4:30am and fighting the masses, we opted to head out about 7:45am this morning with coffee and snacks and head to a little park at the base of the big festival park. Balloons everywhere!! All these phone pics don't do it justice--many were so close we were wondering if they were going to land in the little park we were at.
It's reported that every year one or two crash into things like cars. This morning we saw one as we were leaving that was basically right over our house--strayed a bit apparently! Anyways, another few days of this ballooning around. Eli has fall break at his preschool as all the schools take a break during balloon fiesta. So we entertained ourselves with daddy this morning then let him sleep while we worked on some skateboard skills and then... with that another round of nights has begun!
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