We went to the Carolina
Balloonfest yesterday, which is a hot air balloon festival that is held in
Statesville, about 30 minutes north of where we live. I heard about 50 hot air balloons participate, and they all lift off together at 4:30 in the afternoon. We got there a little late, so we missed that, but we still got to see a few balloons lift off . . . apparently they were the ones that had trouble getting off the ground with all the others.
Here's one of them. It's kind of hard to see, but there are people in the basket and it's sitting on its side. Looks like this was definitely one of the balloons that had trouble lifting off. We were surprised at how close we could stand by a balloon - you can kind of tell from this picture that people were standing right next to it, and running away when it tipped over on its side.
Cass LOVED watching the balloons since they are so big and colorful. There were tons of families with kids there - it was some good family entertainment!
It got a little cool at the festival in the evening and I didn't have any gloves for Cass. But - I had socks in my diaper bag . . . I thought they may do the trick, but Cass obviously was not comfortable (or maybe embarrassed . . .
hee hee), so it didn't last long.
At the end of the festival, they did a "balloon glow" where several of the balloons fired their propane to make the balloons light up - it was so neat! This picture doesn't really do it justice, but you can kind of get the idea.
We went to the Carolina Balloonfest yesterday, which is a hot air balloon festival that is held in Statesville, about 30 minutes north of where we live. I heard about 50 hot air balloons participate, and they all lift off together at 4:30 in the afternoon. We got there a little late, so we missed that, but we still got to see a few balloons lift off . . . apparently they were the ones that had trouble getting off the ground with all the others.
Here's one of them. It's kind of hard to see, but there are people in the basket and it's sitting on its side. Looks like this was definitely one of the balloons that had trouble lifting off. We were surprised at how close we could stand by a balloon - you can kind of tell from this picture that people were standing right next to it, and running away when it tipped over on its side. 
Cass LOVED watching the balloons since they are so big and colorful. There were tons of families with kids there - it was some good family entertainment!
It got a little cool at the festival in the evening and I didn't have any gloves for Cass. But - I had socks in my diaper bag . . . I thought they may do the trick, but Cass obviously was not comfortable (or maybe embarrassed . . .hee hee), so it didn't last long.
At the end of the festival, they did a "balloon glow" where several of the balloons fired their propane to make the balloons light up - it was so neat! This picture doesn't really do it justice, but you can kind of get the idea. 