We got up before dawn on Friday morning to watch the mass ascension -- ALL 750 balloons took off in the morning. It started with a Special Shapes Rodeo (they all launched first), but traffic prevented us from getting there for most of that. We saw them from the road. Here's a taste:
The sheer number of balloons was just astounding! We spent a lot of time saying "look at that one -- oh, look at that one"! Here's Katie, doing just that:
I took probably 100 photos; I won't post them all, just a few. These two will give you some sense of the enormity of the event:
We all had our favorites - Katie's was purple; mine was the globe (around the middle are flags of the world):
And of course I took some photos just for fun:
We were tired at the end of the morning, although we saved enough energy for the International Balloon Museum, which was cool.
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