On Sunday our good friends, Natalie and Gavin, invited us to go down to NASA to attend a balloon festival. It meant an early start to our day but Natalie made it worth our while with hot chocolate and sweet treats. We arrived at NASA just as the sun was rising and picked out our viewing spot. The balloons took off in a field near NASA and then had to fly in and throw markers into two different locations. The winner was the balloon with both markers closest to the target. It was pretty interesting to see how the balloon navigated. Did you know there are more then one type of hot air balloon? We learned a lot about the "sport" of ballooning and had some amazing views. It was a wonderful morning.
This balloon was set up in front of us to carry the flag for the opening of the competition- we were surprised how quick the set up happened.
This balloon is throwing their marker on the target (see the bean bag with the red tail?) They could get as low as they wanted but couldn't touch down- though some threw the bean bag from very high (and they were really bad at it)
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That is so cool! And something about that last picture makes me want to trust Jason more.
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