Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Floating High in the Sky

Every year our town has a Winter Carnival and as part of it the city offers free tethered hot air balloon ride. We did it last year and loved it, well everyone but Megan loved it.
We got out of the car and Megan covered her eyes and said, "No! I don't want to see the hot air balloon." Needless to say, she stayed with a friend on the ground while the rest of us went for a ride.
We learned last year that it is very loud, so we borrowed these shooting earmuffs. Gavin thought they were great!

We had to wait in line for about 30 minutes, but it wasn't bad for a free ride.

I LOVE my camera! A friend took this while we were in the air.

Afterwards we walked downtown to see the ice sculptures local community members were carving. This sombrero wearing cowboy was our favorite!

4 comments:

lisa h. said...

that looks so fun and you can't get better than free!

Jenny and Travis said...

I hate that we're not close enough to you guys to come over for there fun stuff like this, but I'm glad you all had a good time!

Rachel Holloway said...

SO MUCH FUN!

I am jealous of your little ride. Looks like a blast! :)

David and Anita Holloway said...

I want to go for a ride in a hot air balloon. That looks like so much fun!!! Let me know where they're having it next year :). What other ice sculptures did they have? The cowboy was very cool. (Little joke there, haha haha :)
Love Ya!
Mom