October 16, 2006

Full of Hot Air

When we were in Albuquerque last week, we had the opportunity to attend the 2006 Balloon Fiesta. We arrived at the park before dawn, when the moon was still in the air and a few balloons were aloft in the dusky sky flying "Dawn Patrol."

Every so often, you could see them pull their burners and fill the balloons with hot air, lighting them up like dozens of giant lightbulbs high above us.

By 7 or 8 a.m. hundreds of balloons filled the sky and everywhere you looked, another one was going up - next to you, over you, behind you. It was quite a sight to look to the west and see nothing but balloons in the vast blue expanse.

It was beautiful.

Posted by hannah at 12:19 PM