Hot Air Balloons...

Hot Air Balloons are a real wonder to me and some day I hope to ride in one. Though I'm not going to lie, it would take a lot of courage to take off and fly in one. Last year I had heard about a Hot air balloon launch in Hudson, WI. I didn't go because it was FREEZING outside and much to early in the morning for me to even want to think about leaving my warm bed. BUT I was disappointed that I hadn't tried to go, so this year I knew I was setting an alarm to make it there. I woke up one Saturday morning at 6am, got the boys dressed up warmly and headed out the door by 6:30am. Jerimy was sick, so we left him home to rest.

We made it to the right location around 7:15am and amazingly found a parking spot right across the street from the field where they'd launch the balloons. There were a ton of people but only one balloon setting up. I had read that they'd launch at 7:30am, so I thought they'd be all ready to go. Apparently they were waiting to see what the weather did first and decided not to launch because of winds. Lucius and I watched them setup and fill the one balloon that was there. It was pretty awesome, they really are enormous.

Oliver was being a little grumpy and wanted to play on the playground instead. So eventually we headed in that direction and into the school to warm up.

Once the chill had left us, we ventured back outside to buy mini donuts. When we got back outside we saw that about 8-10 balloons were now filled and up. COOL!!

We ate mini donuts and walked around to see which balloons were our favorites. Oliver had a question so he asked one of the friendly balloonists. I'm so glad we got out of bed to see them, even if they didn't fly. What a fun adventure.

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