My co-worker got free tickets to the hot air balloon festival this weekend. He was nice enough to give me 2 of them So Pat and I went to the Balloon festival! It took us 2 tries to get there. We left in the early afternoon only to read on the tickets that we would have to wait until 6:30 to see the balloons take off. So we took a detour to the grocery store. Then It stormed until about 5PM I was worried we wouldn't make it because of the weather! but it finally cleared up and off we went for round 2. This one was clear sailing! I was surprised at how many people were there despite the earlier bad weather. We walked around to visit some of the vendors as we had a little time to spare before the balloons were to take off, just the typical stuff. Thought their was a mobile Quick check store, Pat did not want to check it out so I made a note of it and walked on.
The balloons themselves were interesting. They did not get to take off because of the bad weather, but allot of them did inflate to show off. They did not disappoint. Most were the average teardrop shaped balloon (one looked like a tux, pretty neat). but then there were others that were completely different. Their was an american flag, rectangle and all (which is apparently very hard to inflate), as well as a barn complete with animals and a silo(?), my favorite was the Bee that I did not get a great photo of because it went up as we were leaving. The only disappointment for the evening was that the darth vader balloon did not inflate. The guy said it took hours to fold it up properly and he did not want to risk it getting wet in the rain. I guess i can't blame him too much but i would love to see the balloon inflated. (even Pat was disappointed he did not get to see it).
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