For a while I have been wanting to go to a Balloon festival, but getting up and out of the house that early always made me change my mind. Then we headed two hours west, so getting up at 5:30 and out of the house by 6:00 didn't seem such a big deal to my family. Especially Miriam who went to bed at 5:30 the evening before. I am glad we went the kids loved it.
We got there and had a pancake breakfast, with ham, and yogurt and bananas. It was $6 for adults and $3 for the kids. And there was money left over for charities. I was super impressed by the prices, I have been living in New York for a while. Then they started blowing up the balloons.
Then up into the air they went.
Miriam had to use the bathroom so we got separated from the big kids, but we had fun hanging out.
Meanwhile the big kids had to go check out the Star Wars Balloons.
And get their picture taken with Star Wars characters.
The balloons competed in a competition where the lead balloon flew out and then back to the field to show it could be done, and laid down an X. The other balloons had bean bag type things that they tried to get as close as they could to the X. And they could get extra points by popping helium balloons that were floating around in the air, on strings secured to the ground. It was amazing watching how fast the wind could change. One balloon came in on a great entrance, then the winds changed, and they could hardly get their beanbags into the circle to count for the competition. A different balloon managed to be able to get right over the X and drop their bean bags on it.
One other bit of excitement was that the Pink Pig Balloon popped as Miriam put it. We watched it go down, fortunately no one was seriously hurt.
Pink Pig Balloon flying
Pink Pig Balloon Falling
This article tells more about the balloon accident.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=35328251#UM2iF9cWc1Jvhmhi.01
All of that excitement was done and over before 9:00 a.m. so afterwards my sister Emily and I got to go to the newly dedicated
Payson Temple. It was the first time I have been able to attend the temple with her.
Afterwards we went out to lunch at a Dominican restaurant. Emily served her mission in the Dominican Republic, and it was fun to eat her mission food, which was really yummy.
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