Saturday, October 12, 2013

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta

The day(10/5) started at 4am. We left the house at 4:30am to hopefully avoid the crowds getting into the park, and got a great close parking spot thanks to grandma's parking sticker. First thing once in is get in line for some hot cocoa and coffee. Found an open table and got out the homemade carne asada burritos for breakfast. Around 6am the sun starting coming up and a few balloons went up to test the winds. The weather was perfect, cold but great for balloons and little by little the balloons took their place on the field, chase crew helped lay out the balloon and one by one they went up. By 9am all balloons were up except for the astronaut and a princess carriage which I think might have been too large. This was one of the best fiestas I have been to in a long time! We even got to hold a few of the balloons and Grandpa pretended to be a camo bee.

2 comments:

Sara said...

WOW!!!! That is a LOT of balloons!

Jane said...

Love these pics!