Ah yes! The LOE has a famous balloon festival. So famous that they advertise it on one of their two license plates. My dad even witnessed hundreds of hot air balloons floating over the city on his way to Albuquerque on the Monday of Balloon week . He even witnessed one crash just off to the side of the interstate. Buoyed by his wonderful experience, we headed down the 25 for Thursday's Glowdeo. While we waited for the weather to clear, I became a balloon pilot.
Check back in ten years and my beautiful momma will be making the same face in the passenger seat of the car.
Oh no! The Glow-deo was cancelled! Good thing we are spending the night in the ABQ. We can see the ascension tomorrow! They did inflate one balloon for us - well almost.
In the time it took us to walk closer...
After a not-so-refreshing night that involved all of us kids having some sort of bowel problem we awoke and headed towards the festival grounds. Everything looked great. Visible are several inflated balloons.
Wait....did you hear that? Are those gray clouds?
There goes the neighborhood. :(
That lasted all of ten minutes.
The next morning back at the 'Rock' we witnessed the balloons taking off in HD . The weatherman said "it's beautiful here, come on down to the festival grounds." He was cut off when my beautiful momma threw the tv through the window!
Maybe next year...
2 comments:
Yeah, I'd have thrown the tv, too.
seems like u had a good time!
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