Sunday, November 9, 2008

15!! Hot Air balloons!

A few weeks ago, Jen and I went to a Virginia Hot Air Balloon Festival, Craft show, 10 K race, and wine tasting. We had to get up super early to drive down there and, having been to the hot air balloon festival in Albuquerque, we were looking forward to balloon lift up.

We were disappointed, not because the scenery wasn't gorgeous:




or, at least interesting:



But once you go to New Mexico and see 300 balloons go off at once (even if you are there for 4 days and you only see them go off once), anything less than that isn't that impressive. So, sorry Festival organizer who was excited that there were going to be 15 WHOLE hot air balloons at this show, though not all were taking off or landing where we were, but we would be able to see them over the Shenandoah Mountains. Yeah, At first we thought he said 50 and we were impressed, but he corrected us to 15. 1-5.

The only interesting balloon was the beagle:







However, in the end it was worth it. Of only because of the freshly popped, sugary-saltyness of the kettle korn....





3 comments:

Fiona said...

Uhhh...what's going on with that beagle's behind? That's kind of. Kind of. Ex-Pli-Cit.

Unknown said...

I like the beagle. I am, however, biased (Biscuit and Peanut put me up to it!)

Rae said...

Nearly anything is worth it if kettle corn is promised at the end. Note, I write NEARLY anything. This excludes anything that may result in broken bones or being subjected to Kurt Russel movies.