Ever been to a hot air balloon festival? Me either, till this pass Sunday afternoon. You don’t normally see to many hot air balloons around here. Heck, I don’t even remember the last time I saw one floating by quietly, and have never seen more than one at a time. The Plano Balloon Festival was this weekend so when Rebekah and the kids got home from church and changed, they headed over and we drove on out to the north end of Dallas. Parking was pretty easy and we got a good parking spot next to the ticket gate. We walked around first and looked at what the vendors had for sale, nothing really that I needed, but the kids liked looking at the dogs the SPCA had out there. The kids wanted to do one of the blow up jump house obstical things so they waited in line for that and had enough fun with it that they wanted to do it again.
It stared getting close to 5pm so we headed over to the launch field where the parachute jumpers were going to be landing soon. We got lucky and found a spot right in front of where they ended up landing. We had no idea they were going to land right there. And the spot wasn’t really that big so it was pretty impressive that they were all able to land pretty much in the same spot one right behind the other. Never seen anybody do that either!
Madison got to touch the parachute of one of the jumpers but Jackson was to scared to go over to her and check it out.
So after all the jumpers landed, the hot air balloon people started unloading their equipment and blowing up their balloons. It was pretty neat to be able to watch them get everything rigged up to go.
By now a pretty good crowd was starting to show up around us and the spectator field was filling up.
And the first hot air balloon off the ground was the G-Daddy balloon.
Then the Re/Max balloon took off.
And there was a Pink Floyd balloon too. It would have been better if it was in the shape of a pig…
For a few more balloon pics, please visit my Flickr site.
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Beautiful! I would like to go next year!