October 20, 2008

Special Shapes Glow - Thurs., October 9


We finally made it to the Balloon Fiesta on Thursday night for the Special Shapes Glow. We've been looking forward to seeing all the balloons for a long time, and we've been spending time online looking at photos. Katie loves the shaped balloons most, not surprisingly, so we wanted to make sure to see them. This is when they were first starting to inflate -- you get a small sense of how many there are:

The Glow is an event where the balloons are tethered and get fired up so that they glow at night. It's really cool, and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.

Here are a couple of "Glow" photos:









And a movie of the "Creamland" cow being inflated. This balloon is HUGE (you should have seen how many people it took to get it totally deflated and flat), and the video is over a minute long. It was fun to watch all the parts of the cow fully inflate.

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