Balloon Fiesta

Until we moved to ABQ, we had never even heard of the Balloon Fiesta. For those of you non-Albuquerqians, I think it's the largest gathering of hot air balloons in the US and possibly the world. No joke.

I had heard cool things about it and was interested to see what it was all about. It started last weekend. So Sun morning, we got up before church to check it out on a hill overlooking the city. We only had a little bit of time so we didn't get to see the hundreds of balloons that would fill the sky.

But we managed to find some that were going up right near our house.

It was VERY cool to see them up close and going up.

The balloon fiesta has been going on all week. In fact, every morning when I take the kids to school, there are dozens of balloons if not hundreds (depending on the time and weather conditions) going up all over the city. And we haven't even seen the special shaped ones yet. This morning, the wind was blowing them right over our house.

The boys and girl (and me!) are loving it. It is definitely a super cool week. And we haven't even gone down to the balloon park where the majority of the balloons are on the field for up close viewing.

This one flew right over our house. You can hear the gas burners blowing. So far it's been an amazing week. And the special shaped balloons are coming out soon - I hear there's a Darth Vader one!