Hot Air Balloons Kinda

This weekend was the Salsa Fest here in town. It is kind of a new thing, this only being the second year they have done it. One of the events that they had planned was a hot air balloon launch. Friday night they lined up the balloons on Main Street & blew them up and let them glow in the dark. We caught the very tail end of that so we only got to see a couple of the balloons from a distance (we were still in the car just pulling up to Main Street). Then this morning they had plans to launch the balloons from the High School Baseball fields. Unfortunately, the wind was just slightly too strong so both the balloon glow & the launch both kinda fell through. I guess they only lit up the balloons for just a few minutes on Friday night and then this morning it was too windy & they were afraid if they took off that they wouldn't have a large enough area to land in. We were kinda bummed out because we got up at 5:30 in the morning to go see the balloons take off at 6:00 & then we waited for over an hour & it didn't even happen. They did blow the balloons up though for a few minutes so that everyone could see them & one finally did take off (only one of quite a few). Right as they started getting a few of them set up Alyssa had to go to the bathroom so Gary had to leave & take her down the street to go find a bathroom at one of the stores & by the time they got back they had already taken down all but one of the balloons. Luckily I took pictures, even though it's not quite as cool as seeing it in person. It was actually really interesting to see how they set the balloons all up & get them ready for take off. I took some pictures & a short video clip of them getting one of them set up. (Sorry, the video gets a little shaky a couple of times because Bryant was scared of the noise the flames made & so I had to keep moving the stroller. You can hear him start to cry a couple of times.)