Finally! Balloons!

As usual, it was too windy for

the balloons to launch, but they

inflated!  We watched them do

that which was so fascinating

and we were as close as they allowed

us which was pretty close.  After dusk

they did the glow.  That was so fun!

We also talked to one of the pilot's wives

while they were inflating and she 

answered questions that dad had so

that was really neat.

Those things are HUGE!!! The person you see with

the rope was holding the top as it went up.  Each

balloon had at least one person doing that.

As the balloon would rise it took them for quite

a wild run!  One of the questions I had was

what did they do with the ropes in flight.  The pilot's

wife said that if they were going to fly he would

shout "bring it in, bring it in" and they would

anchor the ropes to the basket so they didn't

get caught in trees, power lines, etc.  It was

so awesome to see!!

 

I'm not super enamoured with this 

card, but I wanted to play with the daisy

embossing folder.  What I intended to

do (which I don't think would have made

much difference) is to pop it up with dimensional

tape.  I forgot to do that, naturally.  But it's an

OK card, I guess.  I have a much

nicer one to show, but I wanted to

put up pictures of the balloons first.