3rd Day at the Balloon Fiesta - 10/04/2011

After having been around the Air Balloon launch pad for a couple of days, we decided to sleep in and do things at the RV.  Wrong!!  By 7am we heard this weird noise and realized that it was the burners on the Balloons, so we looked out of our windows and they were completely overhead.  Grabbed our cups of coffee and had another great show there at the RV.

While Darth Vader was quite impressive up close:

He wound up landing amongst the RVs, as quite a few of the other Balloons barely cleared the units and it was nip and tuck whether we were going to get hit.

In the middle of the RV park was a field, that became the main landing area, which they were targeting.

As the Balloons approached the field, they would yell out to the old folks for help to catch the basket to keep it from toppling over.  Jack ran out to help one of the pilots.

Of course, some of them did not quite make it to the field, but everyone was a good sport, helping and getting into the spirit of Ballooning.

We had some of our favorite characters.

So I think we are ready, to try our luck at flying, will let you know how we like it.