Sunday, September 21, 2008

balloon festival

The Plano Balloon Festival was this weekend, and we weren't able to go on Friday or Saturday, so this evening we grabbed a few friends and went and parked a ways a way to watch the balloon launch. It was the very last launch and I don't think all the balloons went up this time, but still we got to see about a dozen balloons or so. The kids enjoyed it, especially at the end when the dinosaur popped up over the horizon.

None of these pictures were SOOC (straight out of camera) and definitely not this first one. Sometimes the funnest part of taking a picture is experimenting with it afterwards.











This one flew directly over our heads, and it was really low too. So cool.





Here's the fun flying dragon. I don't know how they keep that thing in the air!


Wouldn't you say the basket is in an odd place?

6 comments:

shahna said...

How fun! I bet your kids loved it. Beautiful pictures too.

Amanda said...

GREAT pictures! we will have to do that one of these years:)

Melinda said...

Those were great pictures! I'm glad we stayed long enough to see the dragon, but blowing fire up his butt wasn't a pretty sight! The kids really enjoyed it, but I think next year we'll go to the actual festival so they can get up close and personal.

Hohmann Family said...

I really need to do more of this kind of thing. Car shows, airplane expo's, hot air balloon shows, etc. Yeah . . .

Missy said...

I'm still laughing at that last picture!

Anonymous said...

Great work.